Lot 1
A Medal Awarded to the Builders of the Hejaz Railway – The Ottoman Empire, 1900
A medal awarded to the builders of the Hejaz Railway. The Ottoman Empire, 1900.
Obverse: a train, the Tughra of Abdul Hamid II and the year 1318 (1900).
The laying of the Hejaz railway started in 1900 at the behest of the Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was inaugurated in 1908. The railway ran from Damascus in Syria to El-Medina in Hejaz; a branch line from Haifa to the Syrian town of Dara'a went through Palestine.
Diameter: 30 mm. Pierced for hanging.
