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Australian bicentennial commemorative medal depicting Phar Lap

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CC BY-SA 4.0
CC BY-SA 4.0
Type
Commemorative medals
Date
June 1988 - October 1988
Place
Victoria, Australia; Australia
Materials
Metal - non specific
Collection
Coles-Myer collection
Accession number
1988.0090.0001.016

Description

A silver coloured metal commemorative medal depicting the race horse Phar Lap. The front of the medal contains a depiction of Phar Lap, a jockey and a trophy with the inscriptions "Phar Lap" and "1930". The back contains text stating "Australia 200 years - A Bicentennial medal collection" inscribed over a map of Australia with banksias and wattle plants surrounding the map.

Read live from the Museum's Collection API (12/11/2026, 6:20:34 am). Record last updated by the Museum 2021-05-11. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.