Ancient, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. British and World Paper Money.

Great Britain, Westminster Technical Institute, the Burdett-Coutts Medal, c.1895, in bronze, by O. Hale, bust of Baroness Burdett-Coutts left, reverse crowned arms and supporters, cartouche below, named (Presented to Elsie Alice Hunt, for Botany, Art, General Progress, 1897), 77mm (BHM –; BDM –; Attwood –); The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, c.1910, a bronze award medal, unsigned, bust of Thomas Hawksley three-quarters left, reverse engineer with shovel, buildings in background, named (G.I. Taylor, 1918), 57mm; South Africa, University of Cape Town, Corporation Medal for Engineering, c.1910, in bronze, by Elkington, arms, reverse seated female watching naked male in the act of releasing an arrow from a bow, edge named (T. Gray, 2nd Year Engineering, 1920), 51mm. [3]. Last very fine, others extremely fine, first attractively patinated and rare (£30-40)

The medallist Owen Hale seems virtually unknown; Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906), philanthropist