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CHINA: AE medal, 1846. UNC

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Qing Dynasty Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:125.00 - 175.00 USD
CHINA: AE medal, 1846. UNC
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CHINA: AE medal, 1846, BHM-2243, 24mm, "Voyage of the Junk Keying", starboard broadside mainsail set, PURCHSED IN AUGUST 1846 above, CHINESE JUNK in exergue // CHINESE JUNK / 300 / TONS BURTHEN / 160 FEET LONG / 33 FEET IN BREADTH / 16 FT DEPTH OF HOLD / PURCHASED / BY SOME / ENGLISH GENTLEMEN IN 1846, Unc. This medal commemorated the first Chinese Junk boat to sail from China to England. The Keying was a three-masted, 800-ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from Hong Kong China in 1846 around the Cape of Good Hope first to the New York and Boston in the United States and then to Britain in 1848.