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Auction: 21124 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 9: British and World Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 6235

"If schooling could turn boys into Nazis, John Dancy surmised, it must be a powerful thing. Until he was tasked with interrogating members of the Hitler Youth at the end of the war, he had had only the faintest idea what Nazi indoctrination entailed"
Winchester College, Gold Prize Medal, 1939, Awarded to John Christopher Dancy, by T H Paget and B Wyon, GEORGIVS VI REX ET IMPERATOR HONOREM PROPONIT, bare head left, rev. Tomb of William of Wykeham in Winchester Cathedral, text in exergue, JOHN C. DANCY. 1939 engraved on edge, [hallmarked 18ct, J.C (Sir John Herbert McCutcheon Craig, Deputy Master and Comptroller), Royal Mint, London, 1938], 49mm, 86.74g (Eimer 1240; BHM 4383/3720), faint hairlines and traces of polish in recesses, otherwise lustrous, much as issued, very rare

John Christopher Dancy (1920 – 2019), was educated at Winchester, and later served as English headmaster at Lancing College and Marlborough College, before the onset of the Second World War. He served as 2nd Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in 1940, before transitioning to Intelligence in 1944. He served as General Staff Officer in the 30th Corps in 1944-45 and in the 1st Airborne Corps in 1945. It was while interrogating the young Hitler Youth of the defeated 12th Panzer Division that he formed an interest in education, an interest that was to shape the course of his life from then on. The Winchester College Prize Medal was just one of many prizes awarded to this impressive scholar.

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Estimate
£3,000 to £4,000

Starting price
£2800