Ancient, British and World Coins, Historical Medals and Tokens

Netherlands, 40th Anniversary of Christopher Buijs Ballot as Professor at Utrecht University, 1887, large bronze medal by J.P.M. Menger, bust right, reverse legend, 66mm (BDM VIII, 54); Bicentenary of the Franeker Planetarium, 1981, cast bronze medal by G. Hellegers, 81mm; and a white metal medal for the Election of Charles VI as Holy Roman Emperor, 1711, 49mm (v.L. 617.1; Joseph & Fellner 627). [3]. All very fine, but last with some surface corrosion (£35-45)

Christopher Henrijk Diderot Buijs Ballot, astronomer