Description
New South Wales, National Shipwreck Relief Society, Bronze Award Medal (44mm), unnamed and unawarded, struck circa 1872-1902. Obverse: At the foreground, a sailor examines a ship-wrecked man who washed ashore holding a piece of wreckage. Behind an angel consoles a woman weeping with her child while crowning the sailor with a wreath. To the left, a sailing ship sinks in the background by an escaping row boat; to the right a lighthouse, “SUNT LACRYMÆ RERUM SUNT ET SUA PRÆMIA LAUDI”. Reverse: Unnamed, “NATIONAL SHIPWRECK RELIEF SOCIETY OF N.S.W.” within life wrath surrounding. Mint State
Ex John Chapman Collection via Noble Numismatics July 2008 Sale 88
