Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Richmondshire Agriculture Society (Inst. 1778), a copper award medal by L. Pingo, engraved with JH monogram, 52mm (Eimer 56); Death of Sir John Moore, 1809, a copper medal by G. Mills for Mudie, 41mm (BHM 666; E 994); H.F. Smith Prize, a copper award medal, unsigned, named (William Aldam, 1st Latin, 1827), 44mm; Birmingham Musical Festival, 1834, a copper medal by T. Halliday, 49mm (BHM 1675; Taylor 108b); Abbey Church, Bath, 1835, a copper medal by C.F. Carter, 50mm (BHM 1687); Pharmaceutical Society of London, 1841, a copper award medal by W. Wyon, un-named, 45mm (D & W 159/452); British Medical Association, Hastings Prize (Founded 1860), a copper award medal by J. Moore, un-named, 51mm (Storer 1478); Yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, Swansea, 1863, a copper award medal by J. Moore, un-named, 51mm (D & W 96/381); Alexandra Palace Industrial Exhibition, a bronze award medal by J.F. Wright, named (W.T. Carlo, 1881), 48mm (Allen Pt 2; cf. DNW M5, 1298); City and Guilds of London Institute, 1881, a bronze award medal by E.D. Jackman, named (Thomas F. Smith, Silversmiths’ Work, 2nd Prize, 1885), 51mm (E 1684); Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester, 1887, a bronze medal by Heaton & Sons, 45mm (W & E 2172.3; BHM 3346); Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society (Inst. 1833), a bronze First Class award medal by W. Wyon, named (Charlotte W. Fox, for Study of Roses, 1893), 45mm (D & W 117/136; E 1272); 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, 1965, a bronze medal, unsigned [by Toye, Kenning & Spencer], 44mm (E 2106) [13]. Very fine and better, first very rare £200-300

Provenance: First Baldwin Auction, 5 June 2004, lot 567; second Bonhams Auction, 25 October 2005, lot 789 (part); third Creswell-Corfield Collection, DNW Auction 34, 6 February 1998, lot 468 (part); sixth and seventh Baldwin Auction 37, 4-5 May 2004, lot 1729 (part); eighth Baldwin Auction, 3 November 2001, lot 388; ninth Baldwin Auction, 22 March 2001, lot 322