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Great Britain, small copper alloy Admiral Vernon store card for Christopher Pinchbeck II (1710-1783)

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Great Britain, small copper alloy Admiral Vernon store card for Christopher Pinchbeck II (1710-1783)
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Great Britain, small copper alloy Admiral Vernon store card for Christopher Pinchbeck II (1710-1783), struck ca. 1739-41, George II / various toys and medals around an oval cameo of Vernon (?) holding a medal, unique, ex-Adams (Plate). AC-UNI24. 5.25 grams; 27 mm. Dark Fine with worn central details but legend clear on reverse. AC calls the central portrait on the reverse "Christopher Pinchbeck I?" but the ANR auction (echoed on Adams' tag) postulates it is Vernon himself, thereby making this unique piece the "smoking gun" linking the Pinchbeck family of clock- and toy-makers to the long run of Vernon medals. XRF: 97.34% copper, 1.98% zinc. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and to the American Numismatic Rarities auction of January 2004, with original lot-tag 1727, and plated on page 198 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.