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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 610

Victoria (1837-1901), "Golden Jubilee", Gold Medal, 1887 [1893], Inauguration of the Imperial Institute, by T. Brock and J. Pinches, VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX, crowned, laureate and veiled head left, plain on truncation, rev. Imperial Institute, curved pennant to left, inscribed: 'THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE - 1887 | TO COMMEMORATE THE JUBILEE OF VICTORIA R ET I', in exergue 'Albert Edward P. | President' in two lines, edge plain, 28.73g [443.4grns], 12h, 38.5mm. (UBS Auction 56, 28 January 2003, lot 2363; Eimer 1737; BHM 3226), some minor edge bruises and faint hairlines in otherwise brilliant fields, the portrait beautifully cameo, excessively rare in gold, and most interesting for its prototype Brock bust modified for the 1893 Recoinage

Provenance

Spink, e-Auction 3, 23 May 2019, lot 22



In the earliest volume of the Spink Numismatic Circular (1893), the following note is appended: "The Imperial Institute Medal: The medal struck to commemorate the inauguration of the Institute is of Victorian gold, and has been executed by Mr John Pinches. The obverse, bearing the effigy of Her Majesty, has been designed by Mr T Brock, R.A.; the reverse, by Mr Pinches, is a view of the Institute buildings in relief, with a scroll. (SNC, 1893, pp. 280)




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