Ashantee Medal

Ashantee Medal
Obverse and reverse of the medal
Awarded by UK
Type	Campaign medal
Eligibility	British, Colonial and native forces
Awarded for	Campaign Service
Campaign(s)	Third Anglo-Ashanti War
Description	Silver, 36.5mm diameter
Clasps	Coomassie
Statistics
Established	1 June 1874
Related	Ashanti Star (1896) Ashanti Medal (1901)
Ribbon bar of the medal

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

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.

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