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LOT 3532
Great Britain. Duke of Wellington WM Medal. 1852. Commemorative issue of Death of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Dies by Thomas Ottley in Birmingham.
✶BRITISH VICTORIES IN PORTUGAL, SPAIN,& FRANCE✶1808 TO 1815 and DUKE OF WELLINGTON around bareheaded bust slightly to left; names and dates of victories rayed around: ROLIRA & VIMIERA AUG.17&21.1808; CORUNNA JAN.16.1808; OPORTO MAY 12.1808; TALAVERA JULY.27.1809; BUZACO SEP.27.1810; COIMBRA OCT.7.1810; BARROSA MAR.5.1811; PUENTE DE HONOR MAY.5.1811; ALMEIDA MAY.II.1811; ALBUHERA MAY.16.1811; ARROYO DEL MOLINO OCT.28.1811; GUIDAD RODRIGO JAN.19.1812; BADAJOS APRIL.6.1812; ALMARAZ MAY.19.1812; SALAMANCA JULY.22.1812; MADRID AUG.14.1812; CASTALLA MAY.12.1813; VITTORIA JUNE 21.1813; PYRENEES JULY 25.28.1813; ST SEBASTIAN SEP.9.1813; BIDDASSOA OCT.9.1813; PAMPELUNA OCT.31.1813; NEIVE DEC. 9.10.II.12.13.1813; ORTHES FEB.27.1814; TOULOUSE APRIL 10.1814; WATERLOO JUNE 18.1815 / IN MEMORY OF HIS OBSEQUIES AT ST. PAUL'S NOVEM.1852. above mourning Britannia seated to right, sarcophagus inscribed WELLINGTON DIED SEPT-R 14 1852 in three lines and AGED 83 in two lines, on plinth behind; all within wreath; OTTLEY BIRM. below. BHM 2499. Near Extremely Fine.(76gr, 64mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.
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