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Lr. 613 — Lower Canada Board of Arts and Manufactures Exhibition Medal. Undated. Copper.

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:40.00 CAD Estimated At:80.00 - 100.00 CAD
Lr. 613 — Lower Canada Board of Arts and Manufactures Exhibition Medal. Undated. Copper.

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McLachlan-142. 38.2mm. 30.00g. Plain edge. Signed J.S. WYON. The obverse is as last, but the reverse is different. Writing in Canadian Numismatics (1886), R.W. McLachlan explained the change: “It was decided that the Provincial Exhibition should be held annually in one of the larger towns or cities of the province. A new reverse die was ordered, and the appropriate inscription ‘honoris causa’ on the reverse of the Great Exhibition Medal of London, 1862, was adopted.” Glossy mahogany-brown surfaces display significant flashiness.