Description

Physical Description

A large bronze prize medal featuring a view of the Sydney Garden Palace Exhibition Building with a figure of New South Wales standing in front holding the colonial shield and surrounded by exhibition goods.

76 mm (Outside Diameter)

weight > 100 g

Obverse Description

Figure of New South Wales surrounded by works of industry before exhibition building; around, * INTERNATIONAL * EXHIBITION * SYDNEY N.S.W.* M.D.CCC.LXXIX in exergue, waves, below these waves in tiny letters the artists names, J.S. & A.B. WYON

Reverse Description

Within wreath of Australian flora A & T BURT Dunedin New Zealand

Four First Prizes