Commemorative Medal

Medal struck to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the "Wellington Colony", 1890. [Obverse]: Sailing ship and steamers at Queens Wharf centre and left, steamer with smoke coming from funnel approaching from right centre, a rowing four with cox in right foreground, floating buoy left foreground, Mount Kaukau and Western Hutt hills in background.

[Reverse]: View of Wellington Harbour, looking towards Somes Island and the head of the harbour from present site of Wellington City, with a lone sailing ship in centre foreground [presumably the NZ Company's 'Aurora'] meeting a Maori canoe in right foreground, and with the sun rising from behind the Eastern Hutt hills in the background. [Description after Yaldwyn, B. J., 1988].