Coins and Historical Medals

Royal Astronomical Society, Newton Medal, 1820, a silver award by G. Mills, bust of Sir Isaac Newton left, rev. Herschel’s telescope, named (Struck by permission of the Council for the Collection of Samuel Holehouse, Esqr, 1836), 48mm (BHM 1058; MI II, 472/88; E 1137). Scuffed, otherwise very fine and toned, very rare £300-£400

Spink Smythe Auction 312 (New York), 16 January 2012, lot 1441

Samuel Holehouse (1791-fl.1850), amateur astronomer and archaeologist, Islington, London, member of the Royal Astronomical Society, who reported his occultation observations made a with 7-foot refractor on 23 October 1831