CANADA: AE medal, 1873, Leroux-1100, Breton-123, 45mm, Montreal Catholic Commercial Academy Bronze Medal, EDWARD MURPHY / DONOR / FOUNDED A: D: 1873 around a high-relief portrait of the prize's benefactor appearing at the center // CATHOLIC COMMERCIAL ACADEMY around the upper border with MONTREAL below, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF COMMERCIAL EDUCATION is positioned within a wreath of maple with shamrocks above and a beaver below, semi-prooflike chocolate brown fields, Unc, R, ex Robert P. Puddester Collection. Executed by the esteemed fraternal team of Joseph Shepherd and Alfred Benjamin Wyon. Joseph Leroux rated the Edward Murphy medal R-5 in his 1892 reference, "The Canadian Coin Cabinet."
Estimate: 150-250 USD