Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Royal Albert Hall Council Medal awarded to His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh

Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences Council Medal 1871, gold (24.48g), the obverse showing an exterior view of the Hall, the reverse engraved H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh K.G.’, with small ring suspension, extremely fine and very rare
£300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Members of the Nobility and The Royal Household.

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Provenance: DNW, December 2003.

His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, 1st Duke of Edinburgh, was born on 6 August 1844, the second son of Queen Victoria. He succeeded his uncle as Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and died in Coburg on 30 July 1900.

The Royal Albert Hall was built between April 1867 and December 1870, and was formally opened by Queen Victoria on 29 March 1871.