BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS - Baldwin's

1674 1675
1674 Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), Death 1727, Copper Medal, by Jean Dassier, dated old style 1726,
bust three-quarters right, rev Newton’s monument, 42mm (MI 470/85; Eimer 505; Eisler I, 269.8).
Good extremely fine and a particularly nice example. £120-150
1675 Samuel Clark (1675-1729), Death 1729, Copper Medal, by Jean Dassier, bust almost facing in wig and
canonicals, rev robed student ascends a rocky mount, on the summit of which stands Truth pointing
to heaven, 43mm (MI 490/31; Eimer 518; Eisler I, 270, 10). Extremely fine, characteristic obverse die
flaw. £80-100
1676 1677
1676 English Copper Medals by Jean Dassier (5), struck c.1740s, John Milton, bust three-quarters right, rev
Adam and Eve beneath a tree with serpents, 42mm (MI 564/229; Eimer 254 Eisler I, 268.5); John Locke,
bust three-quarters right, rev Libery and Justice, seated upon a sarcophagus, 42mm (MI 271/72; Eimer 413
Eisler I, 268.6); Isaac Newton, Death 1727, bust three-quarters right, rev Newton’s monument, 42mm
(MI 470/85; Eimer 505; Eisler I, 269.8); William III, from the series of Kings and Queens, 40mm; Nicolas de
Catinat, 19mm; J M Mörikoffer, by Hantz, 17mm. Extremely fine or virtually so. (6) £200-250
1677 Admiral Vernon and Commodore Brown, The Taking of Portobello with six ships only, Bronze Medal,
1739, three-quarter facing figures of Vernon and Brown, both holding a baton, rev fleet of ships within
harbour, 37mm (MI 534/102; Adams/Chao PBvb 1-B). Good very fine, slight patchy toning and wear to the
upper-most relief. £80-100
1678 Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712-1780), Governor of the Austrian Netherlands (from 1744),
The Recapture of Prague, Silver Medal, 1744, unsigned (by John Kirk), armoured bust threequarters
right, CHARLES PRINCE OF LORAIN, rev panorama of Prague with troops massed before it, SUBSIDIO
BRITANNIAE, 42mm (MI 592/238, pl.CLXIV, 8, silver; Eimer -, cf 591-592; Doneb 4815). Extremely fine
and extremely rare in silver. £300-400