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This medal was originally supplied with the ring(I have seen a few of this medal with the same ring) and I would never remove it. Someone originally purchased the medal to wear at the time of George's 50th Jubilee, to remove the ring would, to me, be sacrilege.

Coins with holes, no good, medals with holes in with original ribbon or attachment are just fine. Many medals were sold both with hole or without, ones that someone drilled or crudely punched later are somewhat less appealing and would be worth upgrading.

The one just sold on ebay had the obverse of mine "ANATOLI' & the French reverse, Alexbq2's has 'ANATOL' no 'I' The seller mistakenly attributed the medal to Anatoly Leonidevich Durov's son, the circus animal trainer Anatoli Anatoljewitsch Durov.

Obv: ANATOLI DUROW, bust of Anatoli Durov facing right wearing fur coat. Rev: ERSTER RUSSISCHER SOLO CLOWN, around coat-of-arms. Bronze 23mm circa 1890 by Otto Oertel(Germ.) active 1888-1915) (Diakov-) rare. Anatoly Leonidevich Durov(Durow/Douroff) in Russian Анато́лий Леонидович Ду́ров (November 26, 1864-January 7, 1916) Born into a noble Russian family both he and his brother Vladimir joined the circus and in doing so founded a Russian circus dynasty. Anatoly became a solo clown(clown-satirist) who used to deliver a monologue attacking authority figures and he also used dogs, cats, mice & a pig in his performance. Feeling the heat in tsarist Russia he embarked on a tour in 1890-91 of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. Whilst he was performing in Berlin he named his pig 'Will' and he placed a Prussian spiked helmet on it's head and called out 'Will helm', the name of the Kaiser was Wilhelm, Durov was subsequently arrested and asked to leave Germany. This medal, because it is inscribed in German, ERSTER RUSSISCHER SOLO CLOWN(The leading Russian solo clown), would appear to be for that tour. The reverse shows, what I assume is, the genuine Durov coat-of-arms. I have seen the same medal with a French inscription PREMIER CLOWN RUSSE, signed Oertel.

Obv: ANATOLI DUROW, bust of Anatoli Durov facing right wearing fur coat. Rev: ERSTER RUSSISCHER SOLO CLOWN, around coat-of-arms. Bronze 23mm circa 1890 by Otto Oertel(Germ. active 1888-1915) rare . Anatoly Leonidevich Durov(Durow/Douroff) in Russian Анато́лий Леонидович Ду́ров (November 26, 1864-January 7, 1916) Born into a noble Russian family both he and his brother Vladimir joined the circus and in doing so founded a Russian circus dynasty. Anatoly became a solo clown(clown-satirist) who used to deliver a monologue attacking authority figures and he also used dogs, cats, mice & a pig in his performance. Feeling the heat in tsarist Russia he embarked on a tour in 1890-91 of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. Whilst he was performing in Berlin he named his pig 'Will'and he placed a Prussian spiked helmet on it's head and called out 'Will helm', the name of the Kaiser was Wilhelm, Durov was subsequently arrested and asked to leave Germany. This medal, because it is inscribed in German, ERSTER RUSSISCHER SOLO CLOWN(The leading Russian solo clown), would appear to be for that tour. I have seen the same medal with a French inscription PREMIER CLOWN RUSSE, signed Oertel. The reverse shows, what I assume is, the genuine Durov coat-of-arms.

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Johann Heinrich Jung (12 September 1740– 2 April 1817) best known by his assumed name of Heinrich Stilling, was a German author. I think where you have I.H.IVIG STILLING should be I.H.IVNG STILLING with IVNG being Latin for JUNG(as the Romans had no U or J in their alphabet. The German inscription needs breaking up to ' heimat liebe puls im blut eintracht acht unser herzens gut' a google translate = On the front it says "IH Jung / Stilling," around on the back to the "Crown": [outside]: "love of country pulses in the blood / concord our kindhearted [in:] Siegerländer Folk Society". Bereits 1961 erschien eine Siegerland-Medaille mit dem Bildnis Jung-Stillings nach Dannecker . In 1961 appeared a winner's medal-country with a portrait of Jung-Stilling by Dannecker. 50th anniversary(1911-1961) medal of the Siegerländer Homeland Club, the crown & arrow is the weather vane atop the tower of the St. Nicholas, Evangelical Church in Siegen, the 40 in the auction guide above is for 40 euros.

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Welcome I collect Canadian commemorative medals, as well as European and a few US medals but coins are, with the odd ancient or medieval example, outside my remit. That said I would like to see the reverse to with the narrow triple struck 9.

That's the proper caper / by R. Steirly. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York: Harding, E. H., 1874. Whilst reading back through this topic, did some browsing and came across this.

BHM#311. AE gilt RR. So yes, it is very rare. Nice find. D&H#179

BHM# 2459 CC. (very common) WM. 38mm by W. J. Taylor 1851 struck in the building of the exhibition. HP-B340 in The World's Show by Leslie Lewis Allen on page 61.

Yours is an 1853 Gothic type, this site gives the values of English coins http://www.coins-of-...lues/florn.html

Wow, that 1690-May James II Gun Money Halfcrown is staggering , unfortunately it is way out of my league

I thought my example was in great condition for the type but yours is truely superb Looks like I need to take new pics as well, those were done a long time ago and it shows.

The East India Company token, "In 1804 the Soho mint Birmingham struck another copper issue for Sumatra. The arms of the EIC were used for the obverse and closely resemble the design used for Bombay, being struck at Soho at the same time. The Sumatra denominations in kepings are 4, 2 and 1. The designs were used again in1823 when the weights were reduced to two thirds using thinner blanks, because copper price had increased. The 1804 date was not altered. In 1824 Soho’s mint was being prepared for sale to Bombay, but with one press not yet in a crate, ten more tons of the light 1804 coins were struck for Sumatra" Info from http://www.mernick.org.uk/lnc/talks/1999sep.htm

Another beauty

Hi Clive, it looks to me as if the portico entrance to the property opposite has been boxed in. Pic dated 1921. The school now has expanded to include an extension in the grounds of that property opposite

The colour postcards were excellent.... but black and white really suits the old school. The Belisha beacons date the photo post 1934 and the lack of zebra stripes put it pre 1949, the postcard itself is not so easily dated but it mentions the late King, George VI, so the earliest is 1952, the latest 1959, when Tuck merged and became the British Printing Corporation.

Doing the Light Fantastic, what a dramatic presentation, bravo

I missed the postcards posting first time around, glad to see them now! I too was a "grammar grub" albeit at a modern one, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. The token is a great addition for you Clive even though it cost you such a huge sum, more than John Martin's contribution towards the King's Visit.

Save your money, they are free to read online or download. http://books.google....epage&q&f=false http://books.google...._other_versions Yours looked bronze or aged copper to me, that why I said "...brass, according to MI", I try to cover my brass

From MI vol II page 652. Though there were many different medals struck to commemorate the Peace, both in England and Europe in various metals, this one is a copy of one by John Kirk, his version had a latin inscription and was available in bronze, silver and gold, but this copy was only struck in brass, according to MI.

Looking at the list of subscribers you are part of a pretty elite group! Wonderful buy Clive, great history too, I am happy to have been able to share some of the fun with you in discovering about the impressions.

Yes, Marchant cut gem intaglios(signed them so it was clear that it was his work, and not ancient intaglios)), using ancient Roman statues as inspiration for much of his work, then made casts of the intaglios for sale to collectors. This intaglio gem of Isis was originally produced in Chalcedony for Prince Poniatowski. As stated below, the Head of Isis was inspired by a statue. Then Marchant took impressions from this to sell to other collectors. He also produced gem intaglios of some of his contemporaries and also sold cast of these to collectors. People subscribed to the collection, the Prince Regent had 3 subscriptions. From the link http://www.scribd.co...s-Edwards-James in my last post, the extract below is just the start of a very long list of subscribers.