South Africa, Dr B.H. Vos, 1935, a cast bronze medal by C. Bronsgieter, bust left, rev. cross, mining pick and shovel, 98mm; Simon van der Stel Foundation, 1973, a bronze medal by J. Buisset and A.L.S., arms, rev. façade of Boekenhoutfontein, 63mm; Centenary of the South African Medical Journal, 1984, a gilt-bronze medal, 72mm [3]. Extremely fine; second in red Pretoria mint case (£40-60)

Simon van der Stel, the Dutch governor of Cape Colony from 1679 to 1699, after whom Simon’s Town is named. In 1697 he instituted a hospital for 225 patients to treat both the sailors arriving at the Cape and those with illnesses common in the town