1914 Australia HMAS Sydney Sinking SMS Emden Postcard

Struck by the Royal Mint in London, to commemorate the end of transportation of convicts to Tasmania in 1853. Also marking fifty years since the first European settlement in Tasmania.

News of the British decision to send no more convicts first reached Tasmania via Melbourne. It came from London on the steamer Harbinger and transferred to Launceston on the Yarra Yarra. At celebrations in Tasmania, children were given a piece of Demonstration Cake and a ticket entitling them to a medal. Nine thousand white metal medals were struck and an additional 100 were produced in bronze for people who had rendered services to the anti-transportation cause. 4,000 of the white metal medals were distributed in Hobart, 3,000 in Launceston, and the remainder to country districts.

Transportation continued in Western Australia until 1868. When it finally ceased throughout Australia, around 162,000 convicts had been transported.

The medal was initially enclosed in a maroon morocco case.

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