Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals (12 & 13 December 2016): Lot 2799

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British Coins from the C.J. Boismason Collection
A Good Group of Specimen Banknotes (Part V)
A Fine Collection of Racing Tickets and Passes, the Property of a North Country Collector
The Collection of Sussex 17th Century Tokens formed by Tim Everson
A Collection of City of London Medals, the Property of a Gentleman
British Historical Medals from the Collection of Michael Longfield
Irish Coins from the C.J. Boismason Collection
Edwardian Sterlings of the Bury St Edmunds Mint, From the Collection of Dr Robin Eaglen

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№ 2799

12 December 2016

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£140

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National Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, 1803, a silver Subscriber’s medal by C.H. Küchler for J. and J. Boydell, Shakespeare seated on rock, flanked by figures of Drama and Painting, rev. legend and date in sixteen lines, edge named (Antho. Bacon Esq), 48mm (Pollard 28; BHM 553; E 950). Extremely fine; in original metal shells
£100-120

Possibly Anthony Bushby Bacon (1772-1827), son of a Welsh industrialist, who used his inherited wealth to live the life of a country gentleman and London socialite

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Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

№ 2799

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