Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 214
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Majority of George, Prince of Wales in 1759, AR Medal, by Thomas Pingo, GEORGIVS • WALLIAE • PRINCEPS, draped and cuirassed bust left, rev. TELLVS JACTABIT ALVMNO, female figure of Tellus seated, between two lions, couchant, plays a cymbal while four females dance around an oak-tree, a ribbon inscribed ROBVR BRITANNIAE and TELLVS JACTABIT ALVMNO, ADVLTAE AETATIS DIES FAVSTISSIMVS IV • JVN • MDCCLIX in exergue in three lines, 61.65g, 56mm, 12h (Eimer 666; MI ii, 698/428), some contact marks to edge, otherwise pleasingly toned and lustrous, near extremely fine, very rare in this metal
Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals
Baldwins, by private treaty, c. 1965 - £7.10.0
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Sold for
$2,500
Starting price
$300