Special Collections

Sold on 6 July 2004

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Prize, Training Ship, Nursing & Other Medals from the James N. Spencer Collection

James N Spencer

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№ 939

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£270

Royal Naval College Mathematical Prize Medal 1820, by W. Wyon, bust of George IV left, ‘Georgius IIII D.G. Britanniarum Rex’; with ‘1820’ below bust; reverse: ‘First Mathematical Prize, Royal Naval College’, within a wreath of laurel is engraved, ‘Awarded to John Brocas Whalley Smythe Gardiner, Christmas 1828’, 57mm., silver, in fitted but slightly warped red leather case of issue, minor edge bruising, nearly extremely fine £120-160