Coins, Historical Medals & Paper Money

Glasgow Academy, 1825, an engraved gold award medal by J. Mitchell, legend (Thomæ Mackay hoc numisma optimæ pronuntiatonis præmium condiscipulorum suffragiis adjudicatum donandum curavit Franciscus Jeffrey Acad. Glasc. quondam Rector ad mdcccxxv), rev. legend in wreath, 37mm, 18ct, 18.22g. Extremely fine and very rare £500-600

Provenance: Spink Auction 213, 27-8 June 2012, lot 626.

Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850), judge, literary critic and founder of the Edinburgh Review, was Rector of Glasgow Academy in the early 1820s. On his retirement he founded a prize for the best student of ancient Greek