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№ 2050

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24 June 2009

Estimate: £150–£200

Death of Prince Charles, 1788, a bronze medal by F. Cropanese and G. Hamerani, bust of Cardinal York right, rev. figure of Religion with bible and cross, 51mm, 3mm thick (Woolf 67/73; BHM 99/282). A coupling of dies unrecorded by Woolf and perhaps a 19th century striking, very fine, rare £150-200

Woolf (p.132) mentions a pairing of Hamerani’s 1788 obverse with Cropanese’s reverse

Revised estimate £200-250