Medal - Tourist Dollar Adelaide, South Australia - Festival State; Tourist Souvenir
Features
| Location |
Australia
 |
|---|---|
| Issuing company | Stokes |
| Type | Souvenir medallions |
| Year | 1986 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 46 g |
| Diameter | 46.5 mm |
| Thickness | 3.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 543025 |
Series: Australian Tourist Dollar
Obverse
Depiction of the Adelaide Festival Centre. Text around.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Adelaide Festival Centre
THE FESTIVAL STATE
Reverse
Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) on the left, Rundle Mall streetscape with "Mall's Balls" landmark on right and HMS Buffalo store-ship above. Text around.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ADELAIDE
GLENELG
BUFFALO
CLELAND RESERVE
RUNDLE MALL
STOKES
TOURIST DOLLAR
Edge
PLAIN
Mint
Stokes & Sons, Melbourne, Australia (1893-date)Comments
Minted by Stokes this is part of a series of Tourist Dollars that were able to be purchased at various Tourist places around Australia.
Several key landmarks around Adelaide are depicted, including the main ship of the first fleet of South Australia, the HMS Buffalo, of which there was a replica located in Glenelg, a beach-side suburb of Adelaide. Also depicted is a Koala - commonly seen at Cleland Reserve - as well as the “mall's balls” landmark in Rundle Mall and the Adelaide Festival Centre.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (1986) | |||||||||||||||
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