Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Barbados, The Hurricane of 1831, a silver medal by Orderson, legend to both sides, lieut. general sir james lyon…governor…then thanking for donations received, in produce £3,628 cash £21,147, rev. decus haec fortasse benigna, the loss shown as property £2,311,729 in lives 2,437, 39mm. About extremely fine, uneven tone £250-300

Provenance: Bt J.D. King 1971.

The central legend on the reverse quotes the Governor’s dispatch, ‘On the evening of the 10th August the sun set on a landscape of the greatest beauty and fertility, and rose the following morning over an utter desolation and waste’