Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

19th Century, Robert Banks, 1803, a bronze medal by J.G. Hancock, draped bust left, rev. Britannia seated left, despatching Mercury bearing a scroll across an open sea, ship on the horizon, 50mm (BHM 548; E 947). Extremely fine (£90-120)

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (1770-1828); MP for Appleby 1790 and Rye 1796-1803; Master of the Mint, 1799-1801; Foreign Secretary 1801-4; Prime Minister 1812-27