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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6181

John and Marie Emma Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum, 1863, AE Laudatory Medal, by G. G. Adams, I.E. AND M.E. GRAY., conjoined busts right, rev. within wreath, TRUST IN THE LORD AND DO GOOD, 38mm (BHM 2787), lustrous, about extremely fine

John Edward Gray worked at the British Museum in the Zoology department between 1824 and 1874 and was the keeper of the department from 1840. Maria Emma Gray (1787-1876), meanwhile was a conchologist and algologist.

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