IONIAN ISLANDS, Ionian State, as a British protectorate. 1815-1864. Medal (Silver, 38 mm, 23.24 g, 12 h), presented by Governor Edward Douglas to the Leading Students of the Ionian Academy, Corfu (Korkyra) 1841, struck from dies prepared by Paulos Lambros. ΕΠΙ ΧΡΗΣΤΑΙΣ ΕΛΠΙΣΙΝ - KERKΥΡAI ΑΩΚΑ (with good hope - Corfu 1841) Owl, with its head facing front, standing to right on a branch; around, olive wreath with ties below; Π ΛΑΜΠ (engraver's name) in small letters close to the edge at 3,5h . Rev. OΥAΡΔ / ΔΟΥΓΛΑΣ / TOIΣ / MOΥΣOTΡOΦOIΣ / TOΥ/ IONIOΥ / -.- (Howard Douglas the Ionian reared by the Muses) in seven lines, the whole within laurel wreath. Chase, Medals of Greece, I, 468 (this medal depicted). Chatziotis, Num. Chron. 4 (1976), p.84, 29. An extreme rarity with only two examples known in silver to Peter Chase, with the other currently in the collection of the Bank of Greece (PT 04545), once in the collection of Panos Tezedakis. Good very fine.
