Honourable East India Company Medal for the Coorg Rebellion 1837. Bronze

Pierced at 12 o'clock with a small brass loose ring attached

Dimension: 50mm

A late 19th Century cast medal. On thinner flan

Important: The Coorg Medal was originally only issued in Gold, and Silver, and only awarded to Indian recipients

There was never any official issue of this medal in bronze, and all those sighted in bronze are; official trial-pieces; marked or un-marked 'specimens', or commercial replica medals for interested institutions and collectors

Coorg Medals were issued without any authorised medal riband. Those adapted for wear are often seen wearing either the golden cord's worn on earlier HEIC campaign medals, or using the golden silk moire ribands commonly seen used on the Seringapatam Medal. This medal fitted with a modern replacement 'golden' cord for display purposes

Condition: About VF

Code: 22496