Auction Catalogue

18 May 2011

Starting at 12:00 PM

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The Collection of Medals Formed by Bill and Angela Strong

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 501

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18 May 2011

Hammer Price:
£140

Arabian States, Sultanate of Quaiti, Meritorious Service Medal, obverse: bust of Sultan Salih bin Ghalib, reverse: coat-of-arms of the Sultanate, bronze, with incorrect ribbon, extremely fine, scarce £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Manufactured by the British Royal Mint; 62 were produced in 1948.

The Sultanate of Quaiti was centred around the towns of Mukalla and Shiher on the Indian Ocean coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It later became part of the Federation of South Arabia and then the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen.