Ashantee Medal
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The Ashantee Medal is a British campaign medal instituted on the 1st June 1874 for award to British, Colonial and allied native forces deployed against the army of the Ashanti King Koffee Kalkalli, during the Third Anglo-Ashanti War.

Description

Obverse: the diademed, veiled head of Queen Victoria and the inscription VICTORIA REGINA.

Reverse: a scene of bush fighting between British and Ashanti, as inspired by the campaign.

Ribbon: yellow with black edges and two narrow black central stripes.

Clasps

COOMASSIE: awarded to those present at Amoaful and the capture of the capital, or those protecting the lines communication north of the Prah river.
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