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Prize medal, Metropolitan & Provincial Industrial Exhibition 1869
Obverse: Within a beaded border head of Queen Victoria, crowned. Legend: "VICTORIA REGINA". Reverse: within a beaded border four separate shields of Great Britain and Ireland set at right angles resting on an inner circle with border; a beehive in centre with bees in flight, a ribbon below "1869" above. Legend: "METROPOLITAN & PROVINCIAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION". "PRIZE MEDAL". Inscription on ribbon, "NOTHING WITHOUT INDUSTRY". Presented to Lieut. E.R. May for an invention for lowering ships' boats.
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Object Details
| ID: | MED0306 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Prize medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Wyon, Alfred Benjamin; Wyon, Joseph Shepherd |
| Events: | Industrial Exhibition: Metropolitan & provincial |
| Date made: | 1866; 1869 |
| People: | May, E. R.; Queen Victoria |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: x x x 51 mm |