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LOT 4218
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
British Victories AE Medal. Time of George II. Dated 1759. Seven Years' War commemorative issue.
Design by J. Kirk? GEORGIVS • II • REX •, laureate and cuirassed bust to left / GUADALOUPE BARINGn • MOORE MAY • 1 in three lines, NIAGARA IOHNSON JULY • 25 in three lines, MINDEN FERDINAND AUG • 1 in three lines, CROWN POINT AMHERST AUG • 4 in three lines, LAGOS BOSCAWEN AUG • 19 in three lines, QUEBEC WOLFE MONCKn • TOWNSd • SEP • 13 & 18 in four lines, HAWKE QUIBERON NOV • 20 in three lines, armorial supporters with inverted French fleur-de-lis inscribed around garter PERFIDIA EVERSA; below, ribbon inscribed W • PITT AUSP • GEO • 11 • PR • MI • and MDCCLIX (date). Eimer 677; Betts 418. 32.59gr, 43mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
FOOTNOTES:
The Seven Years' War saw Britain emerge victorious on multiple fronts. A key turning point came in 1759, Britain's "Annus Mirabilis" (wonderful year). In North America, Major-General James Wolfe's triumph at Quebec secured the capital of New France.
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