Coins and Historical Medals

JAMAICA, Henry de la Beche, 1841, a copper medal by W. Wyon, bust right, rev. tropical fauna, 45mm (Roehrs 1559; Brandon 1010; BHM 2002). About extremely fine, scarce; in contemporary fitted case £240-£300

Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855), geologist from Dorset who founded the Ordnance Survey in 1840; the medal was awarded as a prize for good conduct to employees on his estate at Halse Hall, Clarendon, Jamaica