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Auction: 4023 - English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals (incl. Railway Medals)
Lot: 568

Victoria, gold prize medallion, of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Mansion House Committee 1879, 55mm, by William Wyon, coroneted head facing left, w. wyon r.a. on truncation, her majesty queen victoria above,patroness below, rev. coat of arms of the City of London, within a roseace and linear circle, legend surrounding, border of arcs, edge, inscribed incuse to recipient the swansea waggon company, 109.24gms (BHM 3061) small edge knock, light scratches on obverse and more severe one immediately behind head, scuff on neck and cheek, otherwise good extremely fine and extremely rare The Royal Agricultural Society of England held its annual meeting in 1879 at Kilburn in London and since it was the Society's 40th Anniversary was held on a very large scale not unlike an international exhibition. The Lord Mayor of London helped to meet some of the expenses. The Committee offered prizes for foreign stock and produce, together with other prizes for sewage farms and market gardens. The site of this exhibition amounted to some 100 acres obtained from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the area of North London some 2 1/2miles from Marble Arch between the London and North Western and the North London Railway Lines. It is therefore perhaps appropriate that this unrecorded gold medal was awarded to the Swansea Waggon Company.

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