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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: 1027

Various Victorian Medals (4) | Derbyshire Infirmary Laying of Foundation Stone, AR Medal, 1891, by Bemrose, DERBYSHIRE INFIRMARY FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY H.M. QUEEN VICTORIA | MAY 21ST 1891, crowned bust of Queen Victoria in profile to left, rev. A SEALE HASLAM, ESQ. MAYOR, shield bearing Tudor rose surmounted by Royal crown, and oval medallion bearing a stag within an enclosure, scrollwork and wreath-sprays surrounds them, plain edge, 38mm, 24.70g, (cf. A.137-1929 [V&A]), hairlined, yet brilliant surfaces, colourful toning, extremely fine; Visit to Ireland, AE Medal, 1900, by F. Bowcher for Spink and Son, VICTORIA . R. I. 1900, veiled bust of Victoria left, rev. TO COMMEMORATE THE VISIT OF HER MOST GRACIUS MAJESTY TO IRELAND IN THE SIXTY-THIRD YEAR OF HER REIGN, plain edge, 38mm, 21.67g, (Eimer 1840; BHM 3662), small beginnings of verdigris, otherwise deeply toned, extremely fine; Reign Enters the new Century, AR Medal, 1900, by Emil Fuchs, veiled, draped bust left, rev. facsimile of the Queen's signature and the date, plain edge, 35mm, 18.31g, (BHM 3659), toned, extremely fine; Victoria, WM Medal, 1984, after, L. C. Wyon, VICTORIA QUEEN, portrait in style of Hong Kong Dollar, rev. three shields pointing centrally, national flower emblems and ornate scrolls around, milled edge, 38mm, 20.12g, lightly fingermarked and scuffed, yet lustrous, extremely fine (4)

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



The second coin in this lot commemorates Victoria's visit to Ireland in 1900. It was struck as a commemorative medal by Spink that same year. The Numismatic Chronicle in June details this.



Spink and Son's, Monthly Numismatic Chronicle, June 1900, pp. 4027-4029

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND

The unlooked-for and kindly visit of Her Majesty to Ireland has naturally evoked much satisfaction not only among the people of Great Britain, who gladly hail every well directed effort to bind together the ties of Empire, but more especially has it aroused the dormant loyalty of the warm-hearted and generous inhabitants of the Island itself. They have sadly missed through several decades the wholesome influence, the kindly sympathy and the cheering presence of Royalty in their midst so that it can hardly be a matter of surprise that murmurs of discontent and whispers of sedition and disloyalty were more or less ever present in the ancient capital and in much of the ancient country. The Queen's most excellent idea to once again be amongst Her Irish subjects has done much, we hope very much, to restore the confidence and loyalty without which even such a Queen as our's could hardly hope to govern either in peace or happiness that portion of her subjects.

So auspicious an occasion has again offered to the medallist an opportunity for the exercise of his art and the medal illustrated above is perhaps one of the best that will commemorate ad perpetuam the great but welcome surprise which the Queen notwithstanding her great age had thought for Ireland.

The bust of the Queen as seen upon this medal is very similar to the one sanctioned by her majesty for the medals of the School Board for London and also for the portrait employed on the large jubilee medal recently issued by the Corporation of the City of London.

The reverse of the medal is entirely Irish, the harp nestling in its bed of shamrock having a very pleasing effect. The medal has been struck in Silver, Bronze and White metal.


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