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Coin, medal and banknote auction - 12 June 2018
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This auction took place on 12 June 2018. Estimates and realised prices are shown below for information only.
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Sale 40 - British Historical Medals
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329
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Charles I 1626 Official Coronation Medal in silver by Briot (30mm), GVF/VF, faint traces of tooling to obverse fields but nicely toned over. Scarce. Eimer 106.
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£300 to 400 |
£300.00
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330
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1815 Benjamin West, American-born President of the Royal Academy, copper medal, by George Mills, on the purchase of his painting 'Christ in the Temple' by the Royal Institution, bust left, reverse names of donors in eight concentric listings, in centre, UNDER THE REGENCY, 41mm (BHM 862). EF.
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£50 to 65 |
N/S
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331
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1824 The Botanical & Horticultural Society of Durham, Northumberland & Newcastle on Tyne, silver award medal, un-named specimen, unsigned, Flora seated in garden room, reverse wreath, 48mm. Extremely fine & rare.
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£70 to 90 |
£70.00
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332
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William IV 1831 Official Coronation Medal, William & Queen Adelaide in bronzed copper, FDC, very pleasing and rare thus nice.
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£140 to 175 |
£150.00
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333
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1863 John Edward & Marie Emma Gray, Complimentary Medal in copper, by G. G. Adams, conjoined busts right, reverse within wreath, TRUST IN THE LORD AND DO GOOD, 57mm, in modern case. EF. John Edward Gray, zoologist & keeper of zoology at the British Museum before the advent of the Natural History Museum. He was assisted in his work by his wife an eminent artist. He also lays claim to being the first known stamp collector, buying penny blacks on the first day of issue & in 1862 he published a Hand Catalogue of Postage Stamps for the use of the Collector.
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£30 to 40 |
N/S
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334
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1916 Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916), Chemist & Winner in 1904 of the Nobel Prize, bronze memorial medal by the French medallist Louis-Alexandre Bottée, bust left, slightly turned, reverse figure of Science seated in a laboratory, 54mm (BHM 4122; Eimer 1957), in modern case. EF. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded 'in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air.'
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£30 to 40 |
£42.00
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335
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1925 Wembley Torchlight Tatoo, bronze medal, 37mm; 1930 RAF Junior Tug-of-War runners up bronze medal, 45mm; 1931 Royal Tournament, RAF Tug-of-War bronze medal (A.C.I. Castledine, H), 31mm, in cases of issue; undated, R.E.C. Association Football League, Tournai, bronze medal, 44mm. VF. (4)
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£40 to 50 |
N/S
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336
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1965 Sir Winston Churchill, a set of four silver memorial medals, by D. Cornell for Messrs John Pinches, each with differing bust, reverses a tablet with quotation from famous speeches, numbered 116 on edge (from limited edition), in 'Special American Express Edition' case of issue, with certificate. Tarnishing spots o/w mint state. (4)
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£60 to 80 |
£84.00
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337
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1995 National Trust, Centenary, bronze medal by (reverse) Ron Dutton, grid of Trust devices; 1996 William Morris, Centenary, bronze medal by (reverse) Robert Elderton, cameo bust of Morris left, wide border of Willow Bough pattern; 1997 The Women's Institute, Centenary, bronze medal by (reverse) Mary Milner Dickens, a progression of women, each obverse Arms of Royal Mint, each 63mm, in cases of issue with certificates. Mint state. (3)
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£40 to 60 |
£40.00
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