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Auction: 18005 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 769

Asiatic Society of Bengal, gold Prize medal, 1931, Calcutta, thomas nelson annandale - 1876-1924, scales, rev. awarded by the asiatic society of bengal to charles gabriel seligman for contributions to the study of anthropology in asia in eleven lines, the naming hand-engraved, 1931 etched on edge, 41.5mm., 64.17g (cf. Puddester 926.1), two small carbon spots, otherwise, as struck, rare, in His Majesty's Mint, Calcutta box of issue

Charles Gabriel Seligmann FRS (1872-1940) was a British physician and ethnologist, with his primary study of the Vedda people of Sri Lanka and the Shilluk peoples of Sudan earning him critical acclaim. He is also known for his 1930 publication "Races of Africa", as well as his professorship of the London School of Economics

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