Coins and Historical Medals

HMS Lion, 1916, a large uniface cast bronze plaque, unsigned, roaring lion standing right, rising sun and battle honours behind, Heligoland 1914, Dogger Bank 1915, Jutland 1916, ship’s motto below, 177mm. Sometime cleaned, very fine and very rare
£200-£300

HMS Lion was flagship for the First Battle Cruiser Squadron, the ‘Splendid Cats’. At the Battle of Heliogoland Bight she sank the German cruiser Köln; at Dogger Bank and Jutland, she was the flagship of Admiral Sir David Beatty and was first to open fire at the latter encounter