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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 215

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Battle of Quiberon Bay, Belleisle, AR Medal, 1759, by J. Kirk for the Society of Arts, BRITAIN • TRIVMPHED • HAWKE • COMMANDED, Britannia armed with a trident, seated upon a hippocamp, is crowned by Victory, OFF • BELLEISLE NOV • XXMDCCLIX in exergue in two lines, rev. FRANCE NIGHT BRITAIN, figures of Night and Tempest shield France from the thunder of Britain, FRANCE • RELINQVISHES THE • SEA S • P • A • C in exergue in three lines, edge plain, 40mm, 29.79g, 11h (Eimer 676; MI ii 706/441; MH 1919, 364; Stuart II), black mark to left of Britannia, otherwise lightly toned in hues of ochre, a most attractive example, good extremely fine and much as struck, rare in this wholesome state

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

Baldwins, by private treaty, c. 1965 - £5.0.0

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$1,600

Starting price
$250