Award - Victoria Foreign Services Sea Gallantry Medal
Features
| Location |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Queen |
Victoria (1837-1901)
|
| Type | Award medals |
| Year | 1853 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Diameter | 46 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 414486 |
| References | MYB# 68-1.1 Medal Yearbook (6 volumes). Edward Charles Joslin; 1983. Spink's Catalogue of British and associated Orders, Decorations and Medals: with valuations. Spink & Son, Webb & Bower, Exeter, United Kingdom. |
Obverse
Bust left
Script: Latin
Lettering: VICTORIA D:G:BRITANNIARUM REGINA F:D:
Engraver: Leonard Charles Wyon
Reverse
Recipient name and date crowned within wreath
Script: Latin
Lettering:
FOR SAVING SIX OF THE CREW OF THE BRITISH BARQUE CHUSAN 1853
THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT
TO CAPTAIN CORREO
OF THE
BRAZILIAN SHIP
SOPHIA
Mint
Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975)Comments
Reverse dies were specially commissioned
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1853 | |||||||||||||||
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