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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown with crown at top and ship

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Exonumia - Medals Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown with crown at top and ship
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown with crown at top and ship at bottom, signed .I.GILES. / Porto Bello, ex-Craige, ex-Adams (plate). AC-PBvb13W; Betts-unl. 14.09 grams, 37 mm. Choice, bold AU+, dark overall but with traces of bright original luster around details, scarce, the new engraver's work described by Adams as "a refreshing change [whose] figures are doll-like, perhaps, but they are well clothed." XRF: 41.27% copper, 49.97% zinc, 6.57% lead, 1.40% tin. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and the Ted Craige Collection, plated on page 126 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.