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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 205

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, AR Dedication Medal, 1725, 'A Series of Protestant Reformers', by Jean Dassier, GUILIELMUS WAKE ARCH • CANT •, bust right, in clerical robes, rev. fifteen line inscription, edge plain, 34.60g, 12h (Eimer 500; MI ii 462/73), lustrous and attractively toned with hues of blue, good extremely fine, and very scarce in silver

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

SNC, November 1965, no. 6592 - scarce, EF/FDC - £5.10.0


William Wake was Archbishop of Canterbury for almost all of the reign of King George I, holding the position from 1716 until his death in 1737. Wake became Canon of Christ Church Oxford in 1689, and in 1693 Rector of St James. He was Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury. Tolerant and a prolific writer he was one of Britain’s greatest churchmen.


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$950

Starting price
$150