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Medal - British Transvaal War Military Medal

Medal - British Transvaal War (Military Medal) - obverseMedal - British Transvaal War (Military Medal) - reverse

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Features

Location New Zealand
Queen Victoria (1840-1901)
Type Commemorative medals › Military medals
Year 1900
Composition Bronze (Gilt)
Weight 5.4 g
Diameter 22 mm
Thickness 1.8 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled (Eyelet hole has been filled and filigree added)
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
351639
References Morel# 1899-1900/1
Leon G. Morel; 1996. Medallic commemoratives of New Zealand: 1865-1940 (2nd edition). Christchurch, New Zealand.
, Hern Medals# 940
Brian Hern, Peter Wilson (ed.), Henk Loots (ed.); 2008. Hern's Handbook on the Medallions of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek and the Anglo Boer War. Self-published, Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
, Laidlaw# 0523
South African Commemorative Medals (https://www.southafricanmedals.com/)

Commemorative issue

Second Boer War

Obverse

Queen Victoria facing Left

Script: Latin

Lettering: BRITISH TRANSVAAL WAR

Reverse

British Flag, Red and White Ensign, Lettering around edge with date below

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SUCCESS TO NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT
1899 1900

Edge

Plain

Mint

Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, Australia (1893-date)

Comments

Actually not a military medal but a patriotic token, cant find a category for them

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1900 

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