FRANCE, Paris Universal International Exposition, 1878, prize medal


FRANCE, Paris Universal International Exposition, 1878, prize medal in gold (.900 fine; 84.14g; 50mm), by J.C.Chaplain at Paris Mint, obverse, laureate bust of France left, reverse, above a scene of the exhibition buildings Victory holding a wreath and trumpet and below to right is Cupid holding aloft a plaque and stamped on this in relief, 'Dalton.Freres' (Dalton Brothers). Some edge bruising, otherwise good very fine and very rare to an Australian.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 69 (lot 222).

Gold medal awarded to Dalton Brothers for flour and wheat. Dalton Brothers was established in Orange, NSW in 1858 by James Dalton and his brother Thomas as a pastoral enterprise. The Dalton family was one of the colony's richest and most influential Catholic families. James (1834-1919) was born in Limerick and migrated from Ireland because of the famine of the 1840s.


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