Coins and Historical Medals

Visit of Abdul Aziz, Sultan of Turkey, to the City of London, 1867, a copper medal by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, bust right wearing fez, rev. Londinia greets figure of Turkey, symbolic buildings behind, 76mm (W & E 1065.1; BHM 2872; E 1591). Extremely fine; housed in fitted case of issue [this somewhat faded] £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Complete Collection of City of London Medals.

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Abdul Aziz became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire on the death of his uncle in June 1861. After a visit to the Paris Exposition Universelle in the summer of 1867, Abdul Aziz came to London where he was lavishly entertained at a reception at the Guildhall on 18 July. The portrait on the medal “gave great satisfaction to His Imperial Majesty, who conferred upon Mr J.S. Wyon the medallist the order of the Medjidie of the Fourth Class”