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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 423

Henry Thomas de la Beche, 1841, specimen striking in bronze, head right, h.t. de la beche tbehind head, signed w.wyon. r.a. on truncation, rev. reward for good conduct, palm trees and tropical vegetation, halse hall jamaica in exergue, 45mm. (BHM.2002), extremely fine, rare Estimate £ 60-100 Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855), President of the Geological Society of London. This was a prize medal for good conduct to be awarded to the employees on the estate of H.T. de la Beche at Halse Hall, near Clarendon, Jamaica.

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