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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon with cannon and ship / Porto Bello, 1739, e

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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon with cannon and ship / Porto Bello, 1739, e
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon with cannon and ship / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Adams (Plate). AC-PBvi17Z. 38 mm, 11.48 grams. Lustrous and coppery in color, lightly cleaned but not overly worn (AXF) and actually photogenic, with dentillated rims. XRF: 53.26% copper, 45.12% zinc, 1.31% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and to the Coin Galleries auction of September 2008, with original lot-tag 1853, plated on page 102 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.