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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Ogle and Wentworth / Porto Bello,

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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Ogle and Wentworth / Porto Bello,
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Ogle and Wentworth / Porto Bello, ex-Adams (Plate). AC-PBvow1A. 13.37 grams; 39 mm. Choice UNC with lustrous fields and crisply dentillated rims, darkly toned across center of obverse, scarce variety and notable as the only Porto Bello medal showing all three men, Vernon and Ogle and Wentworth, also with lion cubs at their feet in homage to the ones born at the Tower of London menagerie aptly named Vernon and Ogle. XRF: 49.99% copper, 45.47% zinc, 3.47% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 137 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.