Barbados, British Colonial. The Hurricane of 1831 AR Medal. 1831. • BARBADOS • LIEUT GENERAL SIR JAMES LYON K.C.B. & G.C.H. GOVERNOR & c. • around outer rim; in central field: COMMEMORATIVE OF THE AWFUL HURRICANE OF THE 11th. AUGUST 1831; WHICH CALLED FORTH THE GENEROUS SYMPATHY & LIBERAL SUCCOUR OF OUR SISTER ISLES AND OTHER FRIENDLY SHORES IN THE HOUR OF CALAMITY & DISTRESS. DONATIONS RECEIVED. IN PRODUCE 3,628, CASH 21,147. £24,775 Cv. / DEUS HÆC FORTASSE BENIGNÂ above, REDUCET IN SEDEM VICE below, "ON THE EVENING OF THE 10th THE SUN SET ON A LANDSCAPE OF THE GREATEST BEAUTY AND FERTILITY, AND ROSE THE FOLLOWING MORNING OVER AN UTTER DESOLATION AND WASTE" GOVERRS DISPAH. LOSS SUSTAINED IN PROPERTY £2,311,729 Cv. IN LIVES 2,437. ORDERSON in exergue. Roetis 1489. 22.27g, 39mm, 12h.

Mint State, wonderful old cabinet tone. Extremely Rare.

Ex Dix Noonan Webb Ltd., Sale 123,11 June 2014, lot 711.

Issued by the then Governor General of Barbados Sir James Lyon for the terrible hurricane of 1831 that wiped out the capital Bridgetown on the 11th August.