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Auction: 24123 - British and World Coins and Medals featuring the Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 1017

Volunteer Movement, 21st Anniversary, AR Medal, 1881, by N. Macphail, XXI. ANNIVERSARY. OF. THE. VOLUNTEER. MOVEMENT. MDCCCLXXXI, bust of the Queen almost facing, Crowned, veiled and draped, dividing letters V-R in the field, rev. PRO ARIS ET FOCIS, warrior standing, protects the kneeling figures of Anglia, Hibernia and Scotia, in defence of their mother Kingdom, lettered edge: W. WALTON UROUHART MAJOR 1ST FOR ART VOLS, 63mm, 87.30g, (Eimer 1682; BHM 3104; CP 191/12; WE 1378), scratches in the fields but brilliance remains, very appealing toning both sides, good very fine; another, but AE Medal, 93.79g, bruised in multiple places on rim, scratches in the fields, fine; Sacred Harmonic Society: 50th and Last Season, AE Medal, 1882, by Pinches, awarded to E. Mann, SACRED HARMONIC SCOIETY • FOUNDED 1882 •, musical instruments within wreath, rev. TO COMMEMORATE THE FIFTIETH AND LAST SEASON • 1882 •, statue of Handel, E. MANN. on edge, 51mm, 62.10g (BHM 3137), glass-like and near brilliant fields to chocolate brown surfaces, good extremely fine (3)

The Pritchard Collection of 18th Century Provincial Tokens and Commemorative Medals


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