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Auction: 22106 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 18 - British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens - e-Auction
Lot: 1561

The Bernard Pearl Collection of Historical Medals | Attempted Assassination of George III, 1800, AE medal, by P. Kempson, GOD SAVE THE KING, an angel defends a plaque bearing the portrait of the King, rev. PRESERVED FROM ASSASSINATION, crown below a radiant sun within a wreath inscribed GOD GIVE PRAISE; below, MAY 15 1800, 38mm, 27.85g (BHM 486), a handful of contact marks to reverse, otherwise with glass-like and lustrous surfaces, hints of toning, bolder very fine

provenance
SCMB, February 1967, M116 - 21/- 'EF'

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£100