Coins and Historical Medals

Glasgow Academy, 1809, an engraved silver prize medal, unsigned, named (J. Denholm June 15th 1809), rev. (Presented to Mr Jno Allan as the First Prize for Distinguished Merit at the end of a Course of Geography), hallmarked Robert Gray & Son, Glasgow, 39mm, 17.74g; a similar medal named (21st Feby 1811), rev. (Given as First Prize for Distinguished Merit at the end of a Course of Geography to Elizabeth Allan), unhallmarked, 39mm, 9.37g [2]. Cleaned, about very fine and rare, more so as a pair awarded to siblings £180-£220

Before the establishment of the present-day Glasgow Academy in 1845, lessons were offered, in the early 1800s, by James Denholm from premises at 48 Dunlop Street, and a decade or so later a Mr Alex Watt was teaching geography from an address at 8 Buchanan Street