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Nice site, just noticed a couple of typos Under Sovereign Dates & Types 'for example Edward VIII sovereigns as their are less' should be there Under Home 'Gold Sovereigns, struck by the Royal Mint have also been around for a long time and are globally excepted and recognised' should be accepted.

I wonder if Dupuis went up in the tethered ballon for the background image, or perhaps he worked from a photograph taken from it?

FERNANDUS ET ELISABE D.G. (Ferdinand and Isabella, by the grace of God) REX ET REGINA CAST. LEGIO. A.S.G. (king and queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Sicily Granada. I believe yours is a cast copy http://www.coinforum.com/can-anyone-identify-this-coin_topic2805.html

Image courtersy of the © Trustees of the British Museumhttp://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_image.aspx?objectId=3369034&partId=1&searchText=HARPOKRATES+lotus&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&titleSubject=on&physicalAttribute=on&productionInfo=on&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&images=on&numPages=10&currentPage=1&asset_id=1001510 This was acquired by the British Museum in 1814 and they date the drawing to 1765-1805.

Spoiler alert, Clive, do not click the link if you would like to find #4 yourself. http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/40B464A7-E39E-4C63-9B39-2759ABA17EFA

I would love to see larger images, as there is such fine detail in the reverse of the medal, it looks to me that the female figure is not pointing, she is in the act of crowning the artisan(as opposed to artist) with a laurel wreath. The reason I say artisan is the articles being held by him and the ones around him. I think he embodies both artists and skilled craftsmen. I even had to strain to make out the Eiffel Tower Photobucket is a good choice for free hosting of large images, which can be linked directly to a post. Small images are fine for small medals, even for large medals without much fine detail but this one, large with lots of low relief fine detail, calls out for a large image. Nice medal The male figure could also be described as Art & Industry. The female appears to be holding an olive branch in her other hand, so she could be Peace or Concordia.

James Tassie (1735-1799) was the most prolific collector and merchant of impressions of classical gems of the eighteenth century, providing sets and selections of impressions in a variety of materials. His collection is the most comprehensive of its day. Its 15,800 items were classified and described by Erich Raspe, and the catalogue printed in 1791 in English and French: A Descriptive Catalogue of a General Collection of Ancient and Modern Engraved Gems, Cameos and Intaglios, Taken from the Most Celebrated Cabinets in Europe; and Cast in Coloured Pastes, White Enamel, and Sulphur. They look pretty old to me Clive, though your guess is as good as mine Intaglios are concave seals, thus impressions taken from them are convex, ergo the ones you have must be impressions taken from the impressions of intaglios. Still could be early 1800's or by Tassie himself. With that in mind here is the right match, convex, with the head facing the otherway as it should. Bear that in mind when looking for the others and good hunting. http://www.beazley.o...38-ACE691766CA9 Reference Number: 3119 Description: A BUST OF A WARRIOR (ACHILLES?), A FILLET IN HIS HAIR, WITH A SHIELD DECORATED WITH SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC AND A SPEAR Signature: Frewin Collection Record: Fitzwilliam Manuscript Catalogue: X7 Unpublished Tassie: TRAY 49.1 Material: Cornelian Comments: ATTRIBUTED IN MANUSCRIPT If you find any that are not listed this is the person to contact http://www.beazley.o...ople/wagner.htm she is a sweet lady, I had occassion to contact her once before because I noticed they had the same Tassie listed with 2 different numbers, she not only replied but took the time to look through my medals on Omnicoin & complimented me on my collection.

Great acquisitions Clive, here is the link you need to identify them, I locate the first one you will enjoy the search for the rest. They are Tassie impressions, or similar, of intaglio seals. http://www.beazley.o...rnPage=&start=0 40009130, Edinburgh Tassie, 3122, A BUST OF A WARRIOR (ACHILLES?), A FILLET IN HIS HAIR, WITH A SHIELD DECORATED WITH SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC AND A SPEAR, Frewin, Fitzwilliam Manuscript Catalogue, X7 EDIT Looking closer at them, they are not identical, there are some slight differences between them.

Welcome, looks a very nice coin from the reverse, it would be great if we could see the obverse though

Electrotype copy of the De Witt Brothers Assassination medal. IILVSTRISSIMI. FRATRES. IOHAN: ET. CORNEL: DE. WITT 48mm coppered 22gram. The original medal was struck in two sizes 48mm silver and 51mm WM. The design has some subtle differences between the two sizes. They both had edge inscriptions, the silver was in latin, WM in dutch. "Historic 1672 De Witt Brothers Assassination Medal 1672 De Witt Brothers Assassination Dutch Medal Commemorating the murders of Johan and Cornelius De Witt in 1672, this Dutch medal features the conjoined busts of the brothers facing right and the Latin legend ILLVSTRISSIMI FRATRES JOHAN ET CORNEL DE WIT (the distinguished brothers Johan and Cornelius De Witt). An eight-line Dutch inscription within an ornate border fills the reverse. .Johan, a leading statesman in Holland, was unpopular with the general populace due to his pro-French sentiments. He was lured into visiting his brother in prison, but it was an elaborate trap plotted by his political enemies. Once he arrived at the jail, an angry mob murdered him and his brother--their bodies torn to pieces and put on public display" Though the quotation above states Johan was killed because of his pro-French stance that was not really the case. De Witt had opposed making the young William of Orange(later to be William III of England) Statholder for life because he wanted to protect the Repulic from monarchy. The French(Louis XIV) had rapidly conquered all but 2 of the 7 Provinces and De Witt wanted to either negotiated for better terms, before the remaining provinces were defeated, or at least buy some time with the negotiations to prepare some defences. Both the brothers were in fact true Dutch republican patriots, who, though they opposed the House of Orange's ambition to be rulers of the Netherlands, were in no way pro-French.

When you say it is gold, do you mean gold in colour? Because I believe your example is brass. The Irish called "gunmoney" "brassmoney". The later gold, silver and copper crowns were struck by Bolton from the original dies in the early 1800's as commemorative boxed pieces, these are usually in perfect condition. The whole idea of gunmoney was that it was intended as temporary coinage, until James regained his kingdom and then you would exchange your base metal temporary coinage for genuine silver coins. Guns, bells etc were melted down to produce gun money, this is not my area of collecting but I have never heard of an original 1690 gunmoney crown made of gold, but I could be wrong. EDIT http://www.londoncoi...s/IrelandO.html The reverse on this has crud above ANO similar to yours, both might have been struck from the same die.

To appreciate the reverse on that jeton requires a larger image, or to put it another way, that reverse deserves a larger image

The 1894 Department de la Seine et Oise is, I assume, an agricultural/horticultural prize medal seeing the grapes and fruit by the rifle and the hand sickle by the hollow log. Wihout these other objects, the soldiers helmet, gun and trumpet would give the impression of a shooting prize medal. Or is it a shooting medal for farmers?

. Found this etching online at http://www.tate.org....rquis-of-t11362 note; Nature has 6 breasts, the spelling "Genious" which was quite commonly used in the 18th century and "SENTIMENTAL MAG." on the spine of the book.

Interesting medal, great to have the ribbon too.

Thought I should put this copy of the Granby Sentimental Token here, not by John Kirk but by G. B. http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php?/topic/28960-marquis-of-granby-1774-a-mystery-piece/page__hl__granby__fromsearch__1

I don't think that there is a reliable answer to that, yet. One thing that is clear, the silvered ones are pretty rare. Here is my silvered sentimental from earlier in this topic. I did speculate that if the set had not finished the the Duke of Cumberland would surely been included, well here is an interesting piece from the Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 67, 1797 about the Sentimental Tokens. "The head of Cromwell is the best. How many more were issued in copper I cannot tell; but the copper ones seem to have been dropped and an embossed card substituted; but how long this or the Magazine continued I do not know. The only card I have seen, and which is in possession of the person who gave me this information, was an impression of William, Duke of Cumberland, executed by Milton" the writer goes on too add that possibly one was struck for Cumberland but that he had never seen it. It would be great to find that embossed Duke of Cumberland card by Milton!!! EDIT; Larry Reppeteau, PCNS Fellow, notes in the MCA Advisory Vol 7 # 4 2004; that all the silver sentimentals he has in his collection are in fact silver-clad copper, called "Barton's metal". What we tend to call silvered.

Lovely crisp strike, looks like it was made just yesterday!

What Art said!

I saw a movie in the 1960's about a tontine great jeton.

http://thestujoecollection.com/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=832 http://books.google....nepage&q&f=true

My pleasure, nice to have another person with similar interests to mine

From Vol. II of Medallic Illustrations, page 483 http://books.google.ca/books?id=MEMGAAAAQAAJ&q=georg#v=snippet&q=georg&f=false ignore the bit about "no value"

One medal that is in my wish list, Maurice de Saxe and his monument.

None of the engravers or issuers of the many small 24mm coronation medals are known, according to BHM, but I would think they all were made in Birmingham England.