For more on the workings of the SOHO mint, a paper by S. Tungate.
This Soho token engraved by Ponthon for Isaac Swainson showed his name as Suainson. A very limited number of tokens were struck before the order...
"The rich man's model and the poor man's friend." [ATTACH] Dudley was noted for his benevolence to both public and private charities.
1714 George I coronation medal in lead by N. Seelander, 131mm, 836gms (Medallic Illustrations II, 426/15). Seelander's design had no chance of...
SOHO shells for a 1799 gilt farthing. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Defeat of Sultan Tippoo, 1792 (BHM 363, C.H.Kuchler). The Sultan presents his sons to Marquis Cornwallis as hostages. [ATTACH]
The British Army in the Netherlands, 1815 by Depaulis and La Fitte, 41mm. [ATTACH]
Pattern 1798 "cartwheel" farthing (Peck-1203). [ATTACH]
Wicklow Cronebane 18. [ATTACH]
BHM 2601, 63mm. [ATTACH] Also known as the the Sepoy Mutiny. https://www.thoughtco.com/sepoy-mutiny-of-1857-1774014
The Lighthouse Caps XL 29-76 have an inside height of 6.3mm while Lighthouse Caps XL 53-101 have an inside height of 14.8mm. Medals on the low end...
Some medals commemorate things that don't look quite the same with the benefit of hindsight. The Acclimatization Society of Victoria (Australia)...
BHM 311 (Middlesex 181) by Droz in Barton's metal with gilt edge. [ATTACH]
The Battle of Salamanca, 1812. One of J. Mudie's Grand Series of Forty Medals Commemorating British Victories produced around 1820. [ATTACH]
Celebration of Queen Charlotte's birthday at Frogmore in 1795, BHM 389, 34mm. [ATTACH]
Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India award medal, 44mm, c1824. [ATTACH]
1799 pattern halfpenny by Fullarton. [ATTACH]
Conder token halfpenny [ATTACH]
I noticed there was a Lafayette medal from the David Vice collection which also had a wrapper like the Serment du Roi and Rousseau pieces I have....
Very cool pieces and a well written history! Do you have a copy of the article entitled Matthew Boulton's French Ventures by R. Margolis in...
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