Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Buckinghamshire, Eton College, Duke of Newcastle Medal, 1833, a trial striking in copper-washed lead by W. Wyon, similar but detail differences both sides, legend closely spaced on rev., 36mm, 47.14g (cf. BHM 1646; MJP p.39; Grant, BNJ XXIII, p.130). Fine to very fine, extremely rare, possibly the only known example (£40-60)

Provenance:
SNC March 1984 (1288)
P. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 629