Watch List notes:

British Guiana, silver medal, Victoria, no date (ca. 1871), local exhibition award, by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, engraved with date on edge to recipient, NGC MS 61. 38 mm. Obverse with crowned and veiled bust facing left with legend VICTORIA / REGINA; reverse with sailing ship and another in background above DAMUS PETIMUSQUE / VICISSIM ("We give and take in return," the colony's motto), all within decorated border with crown at top inside legend BRITISH GUIANA / LOCAL EXHIBITION; edge engraved with recipient's name PIETER VAN EEDEN and 1871 date. Choice peacock toning, especially on the reverse and around the high-relief details, the fields lightly hairlined but overall rather choice and apparently very rare, quite superior to the only other one we can trace (Rudman-Stack's Bowers-DNW-Plante), possibly finest known.

Estimate: $500 - $750