Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
September 2021 Hong Kong Auction 2-7 Oct 2021
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GREAT BRITAIN. Bronze Medal, 1905. Grade: UNICIRCULATED.
Weight: 19.42 gms; diameter: 38 mm. Medal featuring the H.I.J.M.S. Katori, built in British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy, and launched on July 4, 1905, by Princess Arisugawa. The obverse features the ship, along with the manufacturer details, and the reverse gives the technical specifications and launch date. Sold in a custom display case.
Weight: 19.42 gms; diameter: 38 mm. Medal featuring the H.I.J.M.S. Katori, built in British shipyards for the Imperial Japanese Navy, and launched on July 4, 1905, by Princess Arisugawa. The obverse features the ship, along with the manufacturer details, and the reverse gives the technical specifications and launch date. Sold in a custom display case.
Though Japan ordered the building of this battleship just before the Russo-Japanese War, it was completed after the war had already ended.
Estimate: $100 - $200