Alexander Davison’s Medal for The Nile 1798, bronze-gilt, engraved in the reverse field ‘Dd Longbottom Bellerophon’, traces of gilt remaining, good fine £100-£140

Sold with a paperback copy of Billy Ruffian, The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon, The biography of a ship of the line, 1782-1836, by D. Cordingly, and a copy of British Commemorative Medals and their values by Christopher Eimer (1st edn, London, 1987), signed by the author to Chris Dixon, September 1987