Medal - Prince Arthur, Visit to Liverpool, Southern Hospital Grand Fancy Fair

Features

Location	United Kingdom
Type	Commemorative medals › Visit medals
Year	1872
Composition	Pewter
Weight	11 g
Diameter	32 mm
Thickness	3 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 234694
References	BHM# 2945 Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). , W&E# 1175A1 Royal Commemorative Medals 1837-1977 (8 volumes). , Storer MiN# 5062 Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Obverse

Bust bare head of Prince facing to right. Legend around.

Script: Latin

Lettering: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ARTHUR

Reverse

Legend on seven lines with the date at the bottom, inside a large closed crown of laurel leaves knotted.

Script: Latin

Lettering: LIVERPOOL // SOUTHERN // HOSPITAL // GRAND // FANCY FAIR // SEFTON PARK // MAY 1872

Edge

Plain

Comments

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942), was the seventh child and third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He served as the Governor General of Canada, the tenth since Canadian Confederation and the only British prince to do so. In 1910 he was appointed Grand Prior of the Order of St John and held this position until 1939.
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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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1872

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