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England, Christ’s College, Cambridge, Porteus Medal, a copper award medal by J. Phillp, laureate bust of George III left, rev. gateway decorated with College arms, edge named (Joannes Roughton Hogg mdcccxxxiv), 49mm (BHM 632; E 991). Extremely fine £100-£150
Hammer Price: £180
4 & 5 December 2019
England, Martin Folkes, 1742, a copper medal, unsigned, bust right, rev. sphinx, 37mm (MI II, 571/206; E 572). About as struck £60-£80
Hammer Price: £190
England, Marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1840, a copper medal by B. Wyon, conjoined busts left, rev. torch dividing arms of Great Britain and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 46mm (W & E 224A.1; BHM 1920; E 1336). Extremely fine £100-£120
France, Francis I, 1515, a restrike copper medal, unsigned, 54mm; Capture of Girona, 1711, a copper medal by J. Dassier, 41mm; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a copper medal by R. Dumarest, 35mm; Death of Jean-Jacques Barthelemy, 1795, a copper medal by B. Duvivier, 42mm (Julius 445); Death of General Le Hoche, 1797, a copper medal by R. Gayrard, 41mm (Julius 562); Death of General Kléber, 1800, a copper medal by É. Dubois, 41mm; Légion d’Honneur, a copper medal by J.-P. Droz, 41mm [7]. About...
Sweden, Death of Gustaf III, 1792, a copper medal by C.H. Küchler, armoured bust right, rev. robed figure holding wreath over tomb, military trophies around, 56mm (Pollard 3; BDM III, 239). Virtually as struck £100-£120
England, Carlisle Recaptured, 1745, a silver medal by J.H. Wolff, bust of the Duke of Cumberland right, rev. Cumberland as a Roman warrior attacking the Hydra, view of Carlisle in background, reads pvllsi, 37mm, 17.78g (Woolf 52:1a; MI II, 604/258; E 597). Good very fine £150-£200
England, Marriage of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold, 1816, a copper medal by T. Halliday, conjoined busts right, rev. winged male figure standing, holding torch and wreath, 54mm (BHM 907; E 1082). Extremely fine £100-£120
Hammer Price: £200
England, Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor, 1827, a silver medal by C. Voigt, bust left, rev. legend in 12 lines, 47mm (BHM 1308; E 1197). Fields with minor hairlines, otherwise extremely fine and toned £150-£200
England, John Milton, c. 1740, a copper medal by J. Dassier, bust three-quarters right, rev. Adam and Eve beneath tree with serpents, 42mm (Eisler 215; MI I, 564/229; E 254). About extremely fine £80-£100
England, Sir John Soane, 1834, a copper medal by W. Wyon, bust right, rev. façade of the Bank of England, 57mm (BHM 1662; E 1278; Taylor 106a). Extremely fine and nicely patinated, a most attractive example £100-£150
Hammer Price: £220
England, Christopher Wren, 1846, a copper medal by B. Wyon for the Art Union of London, bust right, rev. façade of St Paul's Cathedral, 58mm (BHM 2232; E 1411). Good extremely fine £100-£150
England, Battle of Sheriffmuir, 1715, a copper medal by J. Croker, laureate bust of George I right, rev. Victory holding sword and pursuing fleeing cavalry, 45mm (Woolf 31.1a; MI II, 434/33; E 475). Struck from broken dies, extremely fine £200-£300
England, Monument to Princess Clementina Sobieska Erected in Rome, 1742, a copper medal, unsigned [by O. Hamerani], bust of Pope Benedict XIV right, rev. the monument at St Peter’s, 35mm (Woolf 45:2; MI II, 570/204; E 570; Lincoln 1812; Bart. 743). Good extremely fine £80-£100
England, Foundation of Christ Church, Birmingham, 1805, a silver medal by T. Webb, bust of George III right, rev. view of the church, 42mm (BHM 601; Taylor 65a). Minor marks in fields, otherwise extremely fine and attractively toned £200-£260
France, Bombardment of Tangier and Mogador, 1844, a copper medal by A. Caqué, uniformed bust of Ferdinand, Prince de Joinville, right, rev. warships, the two cities in background, 53mm. Extremely fine £150-£180
England, Attempted Invasion of Scotland, 1708, a copper medal by N. Roettiers, similar, 30mm (Woolf 20:1a; MI II, 314/135). Good very fine £100-£150
England, Death of Princess Charlotte, 1817, a copper medal by T. Webb and G. Mills for Mudie, draped bust three-quarters right, rev. Britannia weeping, 50mm (BHM 940; E 1097). Good extremely fine £100-£150
Hammer Price: £240
England, William Wyon, 1854, a copper medal by L.C. Wyon for the Art Union of London, bust right, rev. Britannia and four sea-horses, 56mm (BHM 2535; E 1480). Good extremely fine £100-£120
England, George IV, Coronation, 1821, a copper medal by G. Mills, bust right, rev. equestrian figure of the King's Champion, Henry Dymoke, 55mm (BHM 1087; E 1142). Extremely fine, scarce £200-£300
France, Napoleon, Coronation, 1804, a silver medal by N. Brenet, conjoined busts of Napoleon and Josephine right, rev. laureate eagle, 35mm (Bramsen 359; Julius 1297). Extremely fine, toned £200-£260
England, William Roscoe, c. 1807, a copper medal by P. Wyon, draped bust left, rev. Pegasus atop Mt Parnassus, lyre, trumpet and book in foreground, 52mm (BHM 618; E 985). Extremely fine, rare £100-£120
England, Charles I and Henrietta Maria, an oval cast silver Royalist badge by T. Rawlins, crowned bust of Charles right, rev. draped bust of Henrietta left, 40 x 32mm, 10.38g (cf. MI I, 355/216; E 166b). About very fine but badly scratched on reverse; pierced for suspension £200-£260
England, Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, a struck silver medal by G. Bower, draped bust right, hands strangling him with his own cravat, rev. Godfrey lying on the ground in the act of being strangled, Pope to left holds a document over the murderer’s head, edge cervice fracta fidem svstvlit atlas xns and date, 39mm, 28.10g (MI I, 577/247; E 257a). About extremely fine, toned £200-£260
France, Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, 1793, a copper medal by C.H. Küchler, conjoined busts right, rev. the Royal Family, 48mm (Pollard 1; Julius 251; BDM III, 239). Extremely fine £150-£180
England, Duke of Marlborough, Cities Captured, 1703, a silver medal, unsigned [by J. Croker], bust of Anne left, rev. equestrian figure of Marlborough receiving the keys to the cities of Bonn, Huy and Limbourg, 42mm, 36.56g (MI II, 246/35; E 400). Almost extremely fine, toned £200-£300
Hammer Price: £260
England, Union of Great Britain and Ireland, 1801, a copper medal by C.H. Küchler, armoured bust of George III left, rev. Britannia and Hibernia in greeting, 48mm (BHM 524; E 927; Pollard 24). Extremely fine £150-£200
England, Glasgow University, Gartmore Medal for Discourse on Political Liberty, a silver award medal by J. Milton, view of the Old College, rev. Liberty standing left, holding wreath and cap on long staff, un-named, 42mm (Stainton, BNJ 1983, p.139, 2; BDM IV, 84). Extremely fine and attractively toned, rare £200-£260
India, Pindaree and Mahratta Confederacy Defeated, 1818, a copper medal by W. Wyon for Mudie, bust of Marquis of Hastings left, rev. Victory advancing right in biga drawn by winged lions, 41mm (Pudd. 818.1; BHM 974; E 1108). Extremely fine £80-£100
England, Arrival of the Young Pretender Expected, 1745, a copper medal, bust of prince charles right, rev. britannia standing by rock on sea-shore, resting upon her spear and shield, behind globe with map of great britain, 42mm (woolf 59:2; mi II, 600/251; E 595). Good extremely fine, rare £120-£150
England, Death of Prince Charles, the ‘Young Pretender’, 1788, a silver medal by G. Hamerani, bust of Henry, Cardinal York, right, rev. religion standing, holding long cross and bible, 53mm, 72.18g (Woolf 73; BHM 282; E 823). Some marks in fields, otherwise about extremely fine £300-£400
Hammer Price: £280
England, Opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, 1830, a copper medal, unsigned [by T. Halliday ?], bust of George Stephenson left, rev. train crossing the viaduct at Newton, 46mm (BHM 1459; E 1224). Extremely fine £150-£180
England, Death of Sir Isaac Newton, 1727, a copper medal by J. Croker, draped bust left, rev. Science holding a plan of the solar system, 52mm (MI II, 469/83; E 504). Extremely fine £150-£200
England, Visit of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to France, 1855, a silver medal by V.M. Borrel, conjoined busts left, rev. legend, 25mm (Page-Divo 270, not recorded in silver; BDM I, 224; BHM –). Extremely fine and toned, very rare £200-£260
England, English Army Re-Enters Hanover, 1814, a silver medal by T. Webb for Mudie, uniformed bust of the Duke of Cambridge half-left, rev. Britannia feeding horses, 41mm (BHM 777; E 1058). Extremely fine, toned £200-£300
England, Legitimacy of Jacobite Succession, 1704, a silver medal by N. Roettiers, laureate bust of James III left, rev. sun dispersing clouds, 28mm, 7.52g (Woolf 19.1; MI II, 270/71; E 412). Very fine, toned £150-£200
England, Prince James and the Legitimacy of Succession, 1699, a silver medal by N. Roettiers, bust left, rev. rising sun dispersing clouds and demons over a calm sea, 27mm, 7.55g (Woolf 15:1; MI II, 204/519; E 381). A few surface marks, otherwise extremely fine or better, attractively toned £200-£300
England, State of Britain, c. 1667, a silver medal by P. Roettiers, bust of Charles II right with short hair, rev. sleeping lion, 28mm, 8.33g (MI I, 541/193; E 244). Nearly extremely fine, toned £150-£200
England, Death of Matthew Boulton, 1809, a copper medal after P. Rouw, bust right, two cherubs and model of the Soho Mint building below, rev. legend in 22 lines, 46mm (BHM 659). Extremely fine £100-£150
England, Sir Joseph Banks, 1816, a copper medal by W. Wyon for the Horticultural Society of London, bust right, rev. garlands around open book, 41mm (BHM 911; E 1088). Extremely fine, rare £150-£200
England, PEACE OF UTRECHT, 1713, a silver medal by J. Croker, bust of Anne left, rev. Anne stands as Britannia, sea and fleet in background, 35mm, 15.38g (MI II, 400/257; E 460). Extremely fine, attractively toned £200-£260
Hammer Price: £300
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