Medal Prince of Wales Royal Visit; silver

Edge numerically stamped with the number of issue: 1 - 145

Published by the American Numismatic Society

From Spink Numismatic Circular Vol XXVIII (1920) p24 (taken from a circular issued by the committee responsible for the issue of the medal):

" A gold medal was presented to the Prince of Wales on 19 Nov. by a committee composed of the President and four of the officers of the American Numismatic Society. The presentation took place on board HMS Renown. The medal has been designed by John Flanagan, one of the best of our American sculptors.

The obverse bears a portrait of the Prince in profile with his crest in the field. The inscription reads ‘EDWARD PRINCE OF WALES’. The portrait is a very successful one. 

On the reverse is shown the welcoming figure of Columbia. The inscription reads 'COMMEMORATING THE VISIT OF H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES TO THE UNITED STATES NOVEMBER MCMXIX. The field is occupied by two brances of oak, the oak being one of the national emblems of Great Britain.

When the Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII, visited this country in 1861 he planted two trees in Central Park. One of these trees was an oak, the other an elm. It has been possible to obtain a portion of this elm, and from it a case was made in which the gold medal mentioned above was presented."