Coins and Historical Medals

Mudie’s National Medals, 1820, 38 of the set of 40 copper medals by various artists, struck by E. Thomason for J. Mudie, covering events from Admiral Duncan Victory at Camperdown, 1797, to the Ionian Islands, 1817 (BHM 387, 432, 438, 476, 504, 509, 567, 635, 637, 666, 671, 673, 713, 718, 735, 756, 760, 761, 765, 769, 776, 777, 789, 825, 854, 859, 868, 867, 869, 871, 884, 889, 891, 892, 921, 933, 958); together with BHM 596 (Nelson) [38]. Good very fine to extremely fine; contained in the original double-layer gilt-tooled maroon case [this damaged], together with a small folio book, An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand series of National Medals, published under the direction of James Mudie, Esq., London, 1820, 151pp, 10 plates, and a 12-page Prospectus for the set £2,000-£2,600

Laurence Brown suggested that BHM 596 was originally intended to be included in Mudie’s series of national medals