Auction Catalogue

15 & 16 March 2017

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Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

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Lot

№ 1085

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16 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£950

WORLD HISTORICAL MEDALS, CUBA, Capture of Morro Castle, Havana, 1763, a silver medal by D.T.F. Prieto for the Spanish Academy of Arts, conjoined busts of Louis de Velasco and Vincenzo Gonzalez right, rev. the explosion of the magazine at Morro Castle, ships at right and left, troops in boats and assaulting the fort in foreground, 48mm, 59.28g (Betts 443; Medina 12; E 704). Some surface and rim marks, otherwise fine to very fine, rare £200-300