Award - George III Honourable East India Company Medal, silver

€406,962.00

Obverse description	Sepoy standing in front of a field gun, holding a Union Jack in his right hand and a musket with fixed bayonet in his left
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Obverse script
Reverse description	Legend within wreath
Reverse lettering	RODRIGUES VI JULY MDCCCIX. BOURBON VIII JULY & ISLE OF FRANCE III DEC MDCCCX. (Translation: This Medal was conferred in commemoration of the bravery and devotion exhibited by the Sepoys of the English Company in the capture of the Islands of RODRIGUES, BOURBON and Mauritius, in the year of the Hegira 1226)
Reverse script	Latin, Persian
Engraver	Kolkata / Calcutta / Murshidabad, India (1757-date)
Mintage	ND (1813) - - 2 156
Catalog ID	6601049570
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