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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6153

City of London School, 1834, AE Medal, by B. Wyon, CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL, facade of the school building, FOUNDED BY THE CORPORATION 1834, I.B. BUNNING ARCH in exergue in four lines, rev. FOR THE RELIGIOUS & VIRTUOUS EDUCATION OF BOYS & THEIR INSTRUCTION IN LITERATURE & USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, Knowledge seated, instructs a youth who leans upon a tablet inscribed JOHN CARPENTER 1447, and decorated with the City arms, 58mm (Eimer 1279; BHM 1680), extremely fine

Issued by the Corporation of London. The school opened in 1837; this medal, and designs based on it, were used as prizes in silver, for various subjects during the Nineteenth century. The City architect James Bunstone Bunning (1802-1863) whose work includes the Coal Exchange and Holborn Valley Viaduct. John Carpenter (1370-1441), was town clerk of London; his bequest endowed the foundation of the new school.

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