British and World Historical Medals

Gibraltar, End of the Siege of Gibraltar, 1727, a silver medal, unsigned, head of George II left within oak wreath, the fields tooled and stippled, rev. arms of Gibraltar on a hatched field of vertical lines, 56mm (cf. Baldwin Auction 49, lot 1284). Good very fine, extremely rare, apparently only the second known specimen; with loop for suspension
£1,200-1,500