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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles II, Coronation 1661, Copper Medal, by Thomas Rawlins, crowned bust left wearing Collar of the Garter, signed R below, rev Charles as a shepherd, DIXI CVSTODIAM – 23 APRIL 1661, plain edge, 33mm (MI 474/80). Minor spotting on obverse, otherwise extremely fine and a very rare variety, known only in this metal.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, George II and Queen Caroline, Coronation 1727, a pair of the official Copper Medals, by J Croker, both bust left, he laureate, rev the King crowned by Britannia, and rev the Queen with Religion and Britannia, 35mm and 36mm (MI 479/4; 480/8), both extremely fine, the latter on a heavy flan; and T Tibbs’s imitative copy of the former, 34mm (MI 479/5), without wear, but bad (?water) corrosion marks. (3).
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Archdeacon Ralph Brideoake (1665-1743), Death, Copper Medal, 1743, by J A Dassier, bust right, rev the Church of St Mary, Southampton, 54mm (MI 572/208). The scarcer variety of the medal, almost very fine, but surface scuffed and with edge knocks. Ralph Brideoake, Archdeacon of Winchester, had been Rector of St Mary’s, Southampton when, in 1722, the church was restored at his own expense. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, The Young Pretender, The Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, Copper Medal, 1745, by C N or J C Roettier, bust of Prince Charles right, rev Britannia stands on seashore with shield and spear, awaiting approaching fleet, 41mm (MI 600/251 - arrival of the Young Pretender expected; Woolf 59.2), very fine; and a medallet of the Elder pretender, 1697, 25mm (Woolf 14.5b), nearly fine. (2) Woolf argues that, although dated 1745, the medal cannot have been struck earlier than 1748.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, James Sadler (1751-1828), First English Aeronaut, the Record Speed Flight, White Metal Medal, 1812, by P Wyon, bust left, legend around, rev ornate balloon gondola with Sadler and passenger, flags at either end, ASCENDED FROM BIRMINGHAM …, 52mm, in contemporary velvet-lined turned wood fitted box (Mal 26; BHM 712). Extremely fine, the reverse especially choice. James Sadler made his first flight on the 4th October 1784, in a Montgolfier-type balloon with a 170-foot circumference, and made a number of flights during 1785, only to give up following a near disaster. However he was tempted back in 1812 and taking off from Vauxhall in Birmingham, with a Mr. Burcham as his passenger, flew for 112 miles in an hour and twenty minutes. The landing was rough and Sadler was thrown from the gondola leaving the unfortunate Mr. Burcham to throw out an anchor which caught in some trees. Burcham survived without harm though the balloon was destroyed. Sadler was the son of an Oxford pastry cook and before he took to ballooning found employment at the Ashmolean Museum. A plaque in Christ Church Meadow honours one of his first flights. Sadler’s son, Windham William, lost his life in a ballooning accident in 1824.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, George, Prince Regent, the Opening of Waterloo Bridge, Silver Medal, 1817, by T Wyon Jr, bust left, rev flag, lettered edge, 27mm (BHM 961); Victoria, Opening of the New Royal Exchange, Silver Medal, 1844, by W Wyon, 28mm (BHM 2186); Jubilee 1897, Silver Medals (2, one the small official medal), and a brass medalet for the Preliminaries of Peace, 1801. Very fine. (5) first from the G H Gaviller Collection.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Mehemet Ali (Mohammad Ali) Pasha (1769-1849), founder of modern Egypt, Copper Medal, 1840, by A J Stothard, bust three-quarters left, with flowing beard and wearing fez, rev FROM THE COMMITTEE THE FRIEND OF SCIENCE COMMERCE & ORDER WHO PROTECTED THE SUBJECTS AND PROPERTY OF ADVERSE POWERS AND KEPT OPEN THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA 1840, in ten lines, crossed palm leaves below, 58mm. Very fine and scarce. Mohammad Ali, the Ottoman Sultan’s Viceroy, was appointed as Egypt’s Governor on May 17, 1805 and ruled Egypt till September 1848. The obverse bust is based on the famous portrait by Sir David Wilkie, painted in Alexandria in 1840. Wilkie had been travelling in the Middle East and died in 1841 at Gibraltar, never completing the journey home.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Richard Sainthill (1787-1869), Numismatist and Antiquarian, Copper Medal, 1855, by L C Wyon, bust right, rev the Genius of Numismatics greets a young female and reveals a half-sleeping sage, 58mm (BHM 2571; E 1501), about very fine, light verdigris; The Numismatic Society of London, Golden Jubilee medal 1887, Copper, by Pinches, bearded bust right of Sir John Evans, rev legend within and around laurel wreath, 58mm (BHM 3344; E 1729), extremely fine. (2) Sir John Evans (1823-1908), English archaeologist, geologist, and numismatist, president of the Numismatic Society of London, later the Royal Numismatic Society and of the Society of Antiquaries.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, France, Napoleon, Assassination Attempt, Copper Medal, 1800, by Henri Auguste, bust left in uniform, rev legend in ten lines, 50mm (Br 76; d'E 861). Good very fine. This nearly successful attempt on the life of Napoleon took place on Christmas Eve in 1800 when a massive bomb exploded near his carriage as he went to the opening night of Haydn's opera Creation. A barrel filled with gunpowder and shrapnel was placed on a horse and wagon on the Rue Saint-Nicaise but exploded seconds after he passed. The power of the bomb destroyed several buildings and and an estimated 52 people were killed or wounded by the device - known as the Infernal Machine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Germany or Bohemia, Christ, cast Silver-gilt medal, 16th or early 17th century, signed IR in monogram on reverse, radiating bust of Christ left, EGO SVM VIA VERITAS ET VITA, rev St John writes gospel, seated in a garden, an eagle before him, a vision of the Madonna above, 48mm, suspensin loop (cut and twisted in antiquity). Very fine. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Italy, Vatican, Innocent XI, Odeschalchi (1676-1689), Copper Medal, 1676, by Hamerani, bust right in cap, rev Pope carried in procession into Basilica, 37mm (Linc 1404); others smaller (2) of Innocent X, 1650, 26mm (Linc 1075) and Innocent XII, year 1, 32mm (Linc 1518); and a White Metal copy of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre medal, 1572. Very fine and better. (4).
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BRITISH Coins, England, 17th Century TOKENS, London, Bishopsgate (2), Farthing, obv THE TVN AND 3 ARROS, a tun with three arrows in it, rev BVSHOPES GATE STREET (W 252); Will Bennet, Farthing 1657, obv king’s bust holding globe and sceptre (W 223). First fine, the second with flan crack between 7 and 8 o’clock, otherwise about very fine, scarce. (2).
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BRITISH Coins, England, 17th Century TOKENS, London, Shoe Lane (Fleet Street), Amos Winch, Halfpenny, obv full-faced bust of James I (W 2087), good fine; Strand, Thomas Hvnt (Hunt), Halfpenny 1666, obv nine rolls of bread (W 2985), about fine; Tilt Yard, Richard Washbovrne (Washbourne), Halfpenny 1666, obv bust of the Duke of Albemarle (W 3150), corroded, fair. (3) issued by Thomas Hunt, baker. Tilt Yard was an area used for exercising, including jousting and other activities. issued by Richard Washbourne, sutler to the Duke. third bought Snelling 1892.
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FOREIGN / WORLD COINS, France, Henri V, pretender, bronze Pattern 5-Francs 1830, uniformed bust left, rev crown above crossed sceptres (KM PT 32a); Pattern 10-Centimes (2), Charles X, undated by Tiolier and Republic 1848 by Alard; Republique Française, bell metal pattern 1793; Colonies Françaises, 10-Centimes 1844. Very fine or better, the second with edge knock. (5).
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, William I, the Conquerer (1066-1088), Silver Counter, from a series of Sovereigns of England, in imitation of engraving, by or in the style of Simon de Passe, c.1616-1625, half-length bust left wearing armour and helmet and holding sword, rev crowned shield of arms, 26mm (cf MI 380/282). Very fine. .
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Philip II (b.1527), King of England (1554-1558), King of Spain (1556-1598), cast Bronze Medal, 1556, by Gianpaolo Poggini, bearded bust left, wearing armour and ruff collar, legend ends ANGLIÆ REX, rev Bellerophon astride the Pegasus, spearing the Chimaera, HINC. VIGILO, 42mm (MI 80/39; Attwood 1076). Very fine, pierced at top (6 o’clock on reverse). Gianpaolo Poggini (1518-c.1580). The medal alludes to the King’s opposition to Protestantism.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles I, Copper Memorial Medal, struck c.1695, by James and Norbert Roettier, armoured bust right, lovelock over left shoulder, rev hand emerges from cloud holding celestial crown above a landscape, 50mm (MI 346/200; Griffiths, The Medal, No.15, Autumn 1989, pp.4-6). Very fine.
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, Great Britain / England, Charles II, Coronation 1661, the official Silver Medal, by Thomas Simon, crowned bust right, wearing ornate lace cravat, rev the King enthroned, crowned by Peace, 30mm (MI 472/76). Nearly extremely fine, lightly toned. The medal struck for distribution at the Ceremony on Tuesday, 23rd April, 1661, as noted by Samuel Pepys, “And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any.”.
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BRITISH COINS, England, King William III (1694-1702), Sixpences (3), 1696, York, first bust, early harp (ESC 1539; S 3525), 1697, Chester, first bust (ESC 1557; S 3533), 1697, Norwich, first bust (ESC 1561; S 3535), Fourpence, 1699 (S 3549), Threepence, 1701 (S 3550), Twopence, 1698 (S 3551A), Pennies (2), 1698, 1701 (S 3552). The first three fair to fine, the others very fine or better. (8) second bought Burton, Falmouth, June 1901. fifth bought Spink, March 1890. sixth bought W C Weight, May 1895.
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BRITISH COINS, England, Queen Anne (1702-1714), Halfcrown, 1708 SEPTIMO, E below bust (ESC 576; S 3605), Shilling, 1707, third bust with E below (ESC 1143; S 3612), Shilling, 1708, Edinburgh bust with E* below (ESC 1151; S 3615). First fine, the second about fine, the last scratched and lightly corroded otherwise fine, rare. (3) first ex E Vizard.
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BRITISH COINS, England, Queen Anne (1702-1714), Shilling, 1708, third bust, rev plumes (ESC 1148; S 3611), Fourpence, 1704/3 (ESC -), Fourpence, 1710, second bust (S 3595C), Threepence, 1710 (S 3596B), Twopence, 1708 (S 3597A), Pennies (2), 1706, 1709 (S 3598). First fine, the others fine to extremely fine. (7) fourth ex L A Lawrence, 16 January 1889. fifth bought Wales & Co.
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BRITISH COINS, England, Queen Anne (1702-1714), Sixpences (2), 1703, VIGO below bust (ESC 1582; S 3590), 1711 (ESC 1596; S 3619). First good very fine and toned, the second with adjustment marks on first half of date otherwise extremely fine. (2) first bought Spink, April 1890. second bought W S Lincoln, January 1901.
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BRITISH COINS, England, King George III (1760-1820), Bank Tokens (3), Three-Shillings, 1811, type A1/12 (ESC 408; S 3769), Eighteenpence, 1812, first bust (ESC 971; S 3771), Eighteenpence, 1814, second bust (ESC 977; S 3772). First about very fine, the second good very fine, the third stained on obverse, otherwise extremely fine. (3).
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BRITISH COINS, England, King George III (1760-1820), Pattern Halfpenny, 1788, by Droz, brown-gilt, GEORGIUS. D. G. REX., laureate bust right, rev BRITANNIA.1788., Britannia seated left, rudder and palm branch in exergue, edge inscription RENDER TO CESAR THE THINGS WHICH ARE CESARS: (BMC 966). Minor spotting on obverse, otherwise virtually as struck, rare.
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BRITISH COINS, England, King George III (1760-1820), Silver Pattern Halfpenny, 1795, by Küchler, incuse legends, GEORGIUS III?D:G?REX, laureate bust right, SOHO below, rev BRITANNIA, Britannia seated left, date in exergue, plain edge (BMC 1039). Obverse stained, some contact marks, otherwise extremely fine, extremely rare.
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