| Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
| Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
| Form: | Circular. |
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| By: | Pagliari, Cape Mint |
| Date: | 1990 |
| Edge: | Plain and the issue number. This medal: "83". |
| Obverse: | Soldiers on parade while the British flag is being hoisted. Cannon firing on the left. Huts and tents behind. Legend above: FORT SALISBURY" and below: "13 . 9 . 1890". |
| Reverse: | Within an outline map of Rhodesia, across: "RHODESIA / CENTENARY / COMMEMORATION / 12.9.1990". Signed: "PAGLIARI" at the foot. |
| Notes: | The British South Africa Company formally occupied Mashonaland on 13 September 1890. The obverse design is taken from a drawing in the publication: 'The British South Africa Company Historical Catalogue & Souvenir of Rhodesia, Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, 193637. It shows the Pioneer Column in full dress parade and the British flag being hoisted by Lieutenant Edward Tyndale-Biscoe at Fort Salisbury. The site became the future Rhodesian capital, Salisbury (now Harare in Zimbabwe). |
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