Morton & Eden to sell large collection of Waterloo Medals in single UK auction

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Expected to raise total of £150,000 in sale on Thursday May 31

One of the largest and most complete collections of Waterloo Medals to come to auction in recent years is expected to raise a total of over £150,000 at specialist London auctioneers Morton & Eden. The sale of British, Russian, and World Orders, Medals and Decorations in association with Sotheby’s is on Thursday May 31.

The collection of 59 individual medals was amassed by a UK-based private collector who set himself the target of acquiring an example of a Waterloo medal awarded to each of the units who qualified to receive it – 42 British Regiments, the King’s German Legion, Artillery and Corps. All were under the command of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in June, 1815.