Medallion No. 16

1970

Image courtesy of Downies

Designer

Die Sinkers

Size

Numbers Struck

 

Release Price

 

See note

N. Olsen, Adelaide

50 mm

75 Sterling Silver

125 Copper with Bronze Toning

$15.50 Sterling Silver

$5.00 Copper with Bronze Toning

 

Original Order Form for Sturt Explorer Medallion
Reverse of Order Form for Sturt Explorer Medallion

 

All medals are individually numbered. One lead strike exists of the obverse and reverse together. With the obverse of the medal, we made exactly the same mistake as the PMG and everyone else connected with the Famous Explorers on Postage Stamps: we used a portrait of Sturt’s father in mistake for the son’s. The only one of note to use the correct portrait was a wine firm in the Murray River Valley. The reverse inscription was composed by Ray Jewell.

This was the fourth medal in the Explorers Series. The other proposed medals were to have been: Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson; Flinders; Mitchell; Cunningham; Eyre; Stuart; Forrest; Mawson. Only one fifth of members were actually buying the series, and because of the large sums of money tied-up in the project, it was decided to discontinue the series in May 1973.