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Plaque commemorating Sir Francis Drake's Landing in Northwest America

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Item

Date:

1907.

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3638620

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Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal fonds

Lord Strathcona medals and portraits collection

Lord Strathcona medals collection

Plaque commemorating Sir Francis Drake's Landing in Northwest America
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1907.

Place:

Austria:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 medal / médaille : silver ; 109.47 gr
Support 65.000 x 56.000 mm

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Medallion commemorating the landing on the North-Western coast of America by Sir Francis Drake in 1579. This medal was designed and executed by Prof. Rudolf Marshall, Royal Medallist to the court of Austria. 1 gold, 100 silver, and 100 bronze struck at the Austrian Mint in Vienna.

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Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1540 - 1596 / 19/01 / MARSHALL, Inscription: reverse: IN COMMEMORATION OF THE / DISCOVERY AND LANDING / VPON THE / NORTH- WESTERN COAST OF AMERICA / BY THE / FIRST ENGLISH CIRCVMNAVIGATOR / A. D. 1579 / ARCTICVS / AMERICA / NOVA ALBION / BACALLAOS / N. FRANC / VIRGINEA / FLORIDA / CUBA / CALIFORNIA / N. HISPANIA / MEXICO / ROCCA PARTIDA / PANAMA / CARIBANA / PARIA / LIMA / CUSCO / ARICA / AMERICA / BRASILIA / PERV / COQUIMBA / CHILI / PATOGONES, Inscription: edge: mark J. C / 94, Inscription: attachment: no attachment

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C-042344 : obverse
C-042345 : reverse
Subject heading:

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Portraits

commemoration
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1959-001 X PIC
00068M
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Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals

[Consultation 90 Open]

6269 Item no. assigned by LAC 68M

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative C-042344--C-042345

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1959-1-68M

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