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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 409

Wax study on slate of ´Flying Victory´, by William Wyon, c.1830-40, winged Victory, loosely draped, flying right, head turned back, holding wreaths in her right hand and the Union flag in her left, pale pink wax, the slate inscribed with very sketchy suggestion of a fort (?), overall diam. 73mm. Estimate £ 300-500 This ´Flying Victory´ was chosen as the reverse for the Jellalabad medal of 1841-42. A rather plain medal had already been designed and produced at the Calcutta mint, to celebrate the heroic defence of Jellalabad in Afghanistan, 12 November 1841 - 7 April 1842. This first medal had been produced and distributed by November 1842, a very prompt service by any standards, but it was deemed unsuitable. A second, more artistic, medal, with Wyon´s young head of Victoria on the obverse and this Flying Victory on the reverse, was produced in London, and a free exchange was offered to those who had already received the first type. A bronze specimen of this medal is also offered in this collection (lot 425)

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