Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Hearts of Oak Benefit Society (Est. 1842), a silver award medal for Services by W.J. Taylor, named (Mr John Dolling), 50mm; Society of Biological ...

William Etty, 1872, a bronze medal by G.G. Adams for the Art Union of London, bust left, rev. detail from Etty’s painting Venus and Cupid descendi...

Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1888 [struck 1890], a bronze medal by L.-O. Roty, bust right, rev. seated female figure of Mauritius waving to a departing...

Comité Français des Expositions à l’Étranger, 1899, a plated bronze award plaque by L.-A. Bottée for the International Exhibition, Glasgow, seated...

Lillie Langtry, The Jersey Lily, 1901, an openwork plated belt buckle by House of Worth for Tiffany, London, 80 x 55mm. About extremely fine £50-£...

The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, a bronze award medal by G.E. Oliver, named (Essay Competition, Presented to Edinburgh Institution, Robert Bru...

Tit-Bits Magazine, 1902, a silver Award of Merit by J.A. Restall, named (W. Newman Flower for success in Competitions, June 1903), 57mm (cf. DNW 1...

The medal awarded to the winner of the world’s first massed start cycle race, September 1907 Weekly Despatch, a silver award medal by D.G. Colli...

The Franco-British Exhibition, London, 1908, a struck coal plaque, unsigned, for Levallois-Perret, Paris, le carbone on scroll above legend, rev. ...

Southampton Camera Club, a silver award medal, unsigned, for J.W. Wood, named (S.C.C., Dr C.P. Weekes, 1921), 44mm; Liverpool Philatelic Society, ...

The Gardening Illustrated Medal, 1923, a bronze award medal by Vaughton, un-named, 44mm; The National Gardens Guild, a silver award medal by T. Fa...

British Empire Exhibition, 1925, a bronze medal by B. Mackennal and P. Metcalfe, crowned bust of George V left, rev. stylized figures with objects...

London, Midland & Scottish Railway, The General Strike, 1926, a bronze medal by E. Gillick, 51mm (BHM 4210; E 2003); 10th Anniversary of the Signi...

Liverpool Cathedral, 1934, a silver award medal by W. Gilbert, eagle above cathedral, rev. laurel branch, edge named (Charles W. Berry), hallmarke...

Eastman Kodak, c. 1950, a bronze award medal for 25 Years’ Service by J.R. Pinches, named (Norman L. Ryott), 76mm (MJP p.91; cf. DNW 47, 1004); BE...

ARGENTINA, Inauguration of the Buenos Aires Subway System, 1928, a silver plaque by C. Rossi, standing female holding a railway carriage, offering...

AUSTRIA, Anton Ritter von Schmerling, 1890, a bronze medal by A. Scharff, bust right, rev. Minerva crowning a bust of Maria Theresa, Schmerling an...

AUSTRIA, Kaiser Jubiläums- und 5. Österr. Bundesschiessen in Wien [Kaiser’s Golden Jubilee and 5th Austrian Federal Shooting Festival], 1898, a si...

AUSTRIA, Ausstellung ‘Das Kind’ unter dem Protektorat von Erzherzog Ferdinand Karl, Wien [The Child under the Protection of Archdukes Exhibition, ...

AUSTRIA, Death of Josef Kainz, 1910, a bronze medal by O. Hofner, 60mm (Hauser 7498; Svarstad 119; Wurzb. 4195; cf. DNW 48, 803); St Hubertus, c. ...

BELGIUM, Exposition Internationale, Brussels, 1897, a plated bronze award medal by J. Lagæ for Wolfers, un-named, 70mm (ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.175;...

BELGIUM, 75è Anniversaire de l’Indépendance de la Belgique, 1905, a bronze medal by G. Devreese for A. Michaux, 70mm (Willenz 44; ANS Exh. Cat. 19...

BELGIUM, L’Armée Belge Participe à la Garde du Rhin, 1919, a bronze medal by P. Dubois for A. Mauquoy, 70mm (cf. DNW M1, 1618); Voyage au Congo du...

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Monument de Frantisek Palacky à Prague, 1912, a bronze plaque by Prof. S. Sucharda, bust left, rev. monument, 61 x 57mm (Med. Tch....

CZECHOSLOVAKIA, VinaÅ™ské slavnosti Bratislava [Wine Festival, Bratislava], 1931, a bronze medal, unsigned, 70mm (Macho & ChlapoviÄ 20, 2732); HUN...

DENMARK, Centenary of the Dyrenes Beskyttelse [Animal Protection League], 1975, a bronze medal by H. Salomon, 70mm (BM Acq. 1978-82, p.111, 9); FI...

FRANCE, Attentat à la vie de Napoléon, 1800, a restrike copper medal by H. Auguste, 50mm (Bramsen 76); Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867, copper...

FRANCE, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878, a silver award medal by J.-C. Chaplain, head of Ceres left, rev. Fame blowing trumpet, cherub below h...

FRANCE, Ministère de l’Agriculture, Valence, 1885, a bronze medal by H. Ponscarme, 52mm; Union Nationale des Sociétés de Tir de France, 1900, a br...

FRANCE, The French Youth to Michel Chevreul on his 100th Birthday, 1886, a bronze trial striking of the obv. of the medal by L.-O. Roty, bust righ...

FRANCE, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, a bronze award medal by L.-A. Bottée, named (Maissin), 63mm (Maier 131; PBE 9; ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, 15...

France, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889, a bronze medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, 63mm (Maier 182; Coll. R. Marx 307; BDM I, 664; cf. DNW 193, 1...

FRANCE, IIIme Congrès International des Architectes, Paris, 1889, a bronze award medal by E.-A. Oudiné, named (Comité de Patronage, Mr le Bon de G...

FRANCE, Association Française Pour l’Avancement des Sciences, 1890, a silver award medal by L.-O. Roty, female seated under tree reading a book, p...

FRANCE, Association Française Pour l’Avancement des Sciences, 1890, a plated bronze award medal by L.-O. Roty, named (Louis Bernheim, 1896), 45mm ...

FRANCE, Jules Méline, 1892, a bronze medal by H. Ponscarme, 68mm (PBE 752; CGMP p.319; Coll. R. Marx 210; cf. DNW 143, 174); Prof. Joseph Grasset,...

FRANCE, Automobile-Club de France, 1895, a silver Société d’Encouragement award medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis, semi-naked female figure sat on tric...

FRANCE, Saintes Femmes Allant au Calvaire, c. 1898, a uniface cast bronze plaque by J.-B.-E. Dropsy for Susse Frès, three robed females, hands cla...

FRANCE, Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum [International Union Against Cancer], 1898, a uniface silver medal by V. Canale, busts of Pierre and M...

FRANCE, Salut au Soleil, 1899, a silver Art Nouveau plaque by G. Dupré, old man and child kneeling at sea-side, eyes towards the rising sun on the...

FRANCE, Salut au Soleil, 1899, a silver Art Nouveau plaque by G. Dupré, 64 x 50mm (Maier 188; PBE 424; CGMP p.169; Jones, Art of the Medal, 337; B...

FRANCE, Hommage aux Graveurs, 1899, an Art Nouveau bronze plaque by A.-E. Lechevrel, naked female engraving the names of medallists on a scroll, t...

FRANCE, Duval-Janvier, c. 1900, an octagonal Art Nouveau bronze plaque by A.-L.-M. Charpentier, male figure working a coining press, rev. reduced ...

FRANCE, Prof. Felix Guyon, Congrès International de Médécine, Paris, 1900, a plated bronze plaque by L.-A. Bottée, half-length bust left, rev. rob...

FRANCE, Chambre Syndicale Bijouterie, Joaillerie et Orfèvrerie de Paris, 1901, a bronze Art Nouveau award plaque by C. Lefèvre [after J.-B. Daniel...

FRANCE, Courses Pédestres, c. 1905, a bronze plaque by G. Loiseau-Bailly, 50 x 31mm (BDM III, 456); Commerce, a bronze award medal by R. Lamourded...

FRANCE, Aux Poëtes sans Gloire, 1905 [issued 1906], a plated trial striking of the rev. of the medal by L.-A. Bottée for the SAMF, muses of the Ar...

FRANCE, Inauguration des Nouvelles Communications Rapides, Rome-Monte Carlo-Cannes, Fêtes Franco-Italiennes, 1908, a bronze plaque by T. Szirmai f...

FRANCE, La France Victorieuse, 1919, a bronze award plaque by R. Lamourdedieu, partly clothed figure of France holding winged Victory, ploughman a...

FRANCE, Aviation, 1920, a bronze medal by P.-M. Dammann, female figure attaching wings to ankles, rev. birds with young taking off from cliff-top,...

FRANCE, La Famille de l’Agriculteur, 1923, a bronze plaque by H. Dropsy, artisan at work, mother tending sleeping infant in cot at right, rev. ext...

FRANCE, La Musique, c. 1930, a uniface Art Déco bronze medal by P.-M. Dammann for Arthus-Bertrand, nude female seated right on column, playing a d...

FRANCE, Méditation, 1930, an Art Déco bronze plaque by H. Dropsy, robed female seated right under tree, clasping a book in her left hand, rev. boo...

FRANCE, Tendresse, c. 1935, a square bronze Art Déco plaque by E.J. Bachelet for the Comité National de l’Enfance, mother with sleeping child, 42m...

FRANCE, Combat d’Antilopes, 1936, an Art Déco uniface bronze plaque by M. Thénot, two male antelopes fighting, 83 x 47mm (CGMP p.372; cf. DNW M10,...

FRANCE, Python, 1936, a uniface bronze plaque by M. Thénot, python coiled around the branch of a tree, 75 x 52mm (CGMP p.373; cf. DNW 48, 777). Ab...

FRANCE, Jeanne d’Arc, 1936, a bronze medal by O. Yencesse, bust left, rev. robed females offering sword to winged angel, tree at left, 96mm (cf. D...

FRANCE, 20e Anniversaire de la Société de Chimie Industrielle, Paris, 1937, a bronze plaque by N. Aronson, busts of Jean Gerard and Paul Kestner v...

FRANCE, Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, the Launch of the Pasteur, 1939, bronze medals by F. Bazin (2), bust of Louis Pasteur right, revs....

FRANCE, Aux Héros et Martyrs de la Déportation, la France Reconnaissante, c. 1950, a bronze medal by Josette Hébert-Coëffin for the National Commi...