The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals

Dr Jerome J Platt

Dr. Platt has been an avid collector of British medals since the early 1970s when he first purchased a Dunbar medal. Fascinated by the direct connection between medals and the historical events they reflected, he soon became drawn into the worlds from which they came. He was interested both in English Civil War and earlier medals as well as the people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries associated with making, selling, collecting and writing about them. A researcher by inclination and profession, he soon started collecting information about recipients where available, a difficult task at best for the early medals, but one he relished for the material he was able to unearth and the people he met and collections he was privileged to visit during his many trips to the UK. During his work, he found his wife Kay looking over his shoulder with increasing frequency, and she soon joined him at the table, unable to resist her own fascination, not only with the medals themselves, but with the people behind the medals.

Over more than two decades, the Platts published their medal research in several articles and books. Their primary work on the English...