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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1447929, member: 4381&quot;]<a href="http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/morton-eden-to-sell-large-collection-of-waterloo-medals-in-single-uk-auction/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/morton-eden-to-sell-large-collection-of-waterloo-medals-in-single-uk-auction/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/morton-eden-to-sell-large-collection-of-waterloo-medals-in-single-uk-auction/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Expected to raise total of £150,000 in sale on Thursday May 31</p><p><br /></p><p>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 &amp; Eden. The sale of British, Russian, and World Orders, Medals and Decorations in association with Sotheby’s is on Thursday May 31.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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