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Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 504

Portugal, inauguration of the Lisbon to Santarem Eastern Railway, 1856, AE 50, by Gerard (M.271; Swan cat. 334), together with two modern bright bronze medals, 90 & 50 mm, by J. Da Silva, of the same design commemorating the Centenary of Portuguese Railways, 1956, representations of an early 19th cent. steam engine and a modern electric locomotive, rev. two allegorical figures seated on a monument dividing 1856-1956, the first very fine, the others good extremely fine (3)

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