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Auction: 22075 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 5

Honourable East India Company's Medal for Seringapatam 1799, 48mm, silver, Soho Mint, contained in a most attractive chased silver-rimmed frame, glazed with lunettes and fitted with a straight swivel-ring suspension bar, the riband fitted with an ornate silver bar inscribed 'Seringapatam' and silver top-bar for wear, a beautiful example, nearly extremely fine and rare

Awarded by the Governor-General of India to all British and Indian soldiers who participated in the Siege and Capture of Seringapatam in May 1799; some 850 medals in silver were manufactured by the Soho Mint - silver medals were awarded to junior officers who were involved in this action which finally brought about the destruction of the infamous Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore".

Purchased Glendinning's, July 1946, ex-Dalrymple-White collection, for £8.

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Sold for
£2,200