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Auction: 12004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 72

Bethnal Green Volunteer Infantry 1803
A finely-struck circular medal, by P. Wyon, 50mm, silver, obverse featuring Britannia standing on dragon holding olive branch aloft and inscribed ´England´s Perseverance Dethroned Buonaparte´ and additionally neatly engraved in field ´Robt. Bone´, reverse inscribed ´Bethnal Green Volunteer Infantry´ above and ´Lt. Col Carrick´ below, oak and laurel wreath surround, the centre inscribed ´Enrolled 13th. Aug. 1803, and Disembodied at the General Peace of Europe, 24th. June 1814.´, nearly extremely fine, a scarce named example of this medal

Estimate
£180 to £220