Auction Catalogue

13–15 September 2017

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Coins and Historical Medals

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№ 1538

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15 September 2017

Hammer Price:
£1,200

CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Chancellor’s Prize Medal of Henry, Duke of Grafton, 1768, a silver award by J. Kirk, laureate and armoured bust of George III right, rev. draped female figure with lyre crowning student with a wreath, cherub above, un-named, 53mm, 57.88g (BHM 112; E 728). Virtually as struck, attractively toned, very rare £200-300

Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC (1735-1811), statesman. He was appointed Chancellor in 1768, the same year he became Prime Minister at the age of 33. The obverse of the medal was used again on the medal of his successor Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834)