Historical and Art Medals

Death of George Whitefield, 1770, a silver medal by T. Pingo, three-quarter bust right, rev. cherub seated on funerary urn, leaning on a skull, 36mm (Eimer 44b [not listed in silver]; BHM 147; E 735; Betts 527). Good very fine, very rare in silver (£80-100)

George Whitefield (1714-70), one of the founders of Methodism, died at Newburyport, USA