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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6147

Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1830, WM Medal, by Halliday, VIADUCT OVER THE SANKEY CANAL & VALLEY, train crossing viaduct in an open landscape; canal below, TO COMMEMORATE THE OPENING OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILROAD. SEP. 15. 1830 in exergue in five lines, rev. ENTRANCE TO THE LIVERPOOL STATION & TUNNEL, twin tunnel entrances seen through an archway beneath which locomotives pass along a cutting, PUBLISHED BY T. WOOLFIELD BAZAAR LIVERPOOL. in exergue in three lines, 49mm (Eimer 1223; BHM 1458), some light corrosion spots, otherwise lustrous, a photogenic example and handsome rendering of the 19th Century Railway network

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