Medal - Original Arcade All Men are Brothers

Reverse

Palm or Fern Tree

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ALL MEN ARE BROTHERS
THE
PEOPLE
EVERYWHERE
THAT
YOU DO
NOT
KNOW
ARE
AS GOOD
AS THE
PEOPLE
THAT
YOU DO
KNOW
STOKES

Edge

Plain

Comment

This Medal although part of the  E.W. Coles series was not issued by E.W. Cole or his relations. It was issued in 1983 for ‘Back to Bourke Street’ Celebration. Thus could be considered an event or commemorative medal rather than a token. It was manufactured by Stokes. I assume it was issued and paid for by the organisers of the Burke Street on Saturday Night Exhibition. The Burke Street pedestrian mall was officially opened in 1983 by Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Charles and Lady Diana.

The original E.W. Cole tokens and medals which this one commemorates,  were a series of medals offering maxims and proverbs issued by E.W. Cole at his Book Arcade. He called the medals 'little missionaries for the spread of educative knowledge' (Dean, 1988, p.36).
 

Price

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