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CHINA: white metal medal, 1848. UNC

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Chinese Coins - Qing Dynasty Start Price:350.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
CHINA: white metal medal, 1848. UNC
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CHINA: white metal medal, 1848, BHM-2317, 45mm, medal by Thomas Halliday "Voyage of the Junk Keying", bust of Hesing, three-quarters right in mandarin’s robes and cap, MANDARIN HESING OF THE CHINESE JUNK around // fifteen line inscription,THIS REMARKABLE / VESSEL IS A JUNK OF THE / LARGEST CLASS, AND IS THE / FIRST SHIP CONSTRUCTED BY THE / CHINESE WHICH HAS REACHED EUROPE, / OR EVEN ROUNDED THE CAPE / OF GOOD HOPE. / THIS JUNK WAS PURCHASED / AUGUST 1846, AT CANTON, BY A FEW / ENTERPRISING ENGLISHMEN. / SHE SAILED FROM HONG KONG 6TH / DECEMBER 1846 ROUNDED THE / CAPE 31ST MARCH 1847 ARRIVED / IN ENGLAND 27TH MARCH, / 1848, Choice 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.