Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
May 2022 Hong Kong Auction 3-9 May 2022
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BHM-2316. By T. Halliday. Diameter: 45mm. Obverse: View of the junk Keying under sail right; Reverse: Legend in 16 lines providing information about the junk and its journey. Impressively sharp with reflective brilliance around the protected designs.
Struck to commemorate the first Chinese junk--the Keying--to sail from Hong Kong to Great Britain. The voyage lasted 477 days.