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Medals & Decorations

The Ashmolean Museum has a very good collection of British historical medals, dating from the Tudor period to the present day, with particularly high concentrations for the 18th and 19th centuries. Its continental and world holdings are very diverse, with some particularly significant medals of the Italian Renaissance; Germany and the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Baroque age; the papacy; etc. The decorations are mostly British and date from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

Modern medal (HCR139158)

Period

Modern

Person

Ian Rank-Broadley, Camilla Parker Bowles, Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

Obverse

portrait of Queen Camilla, in Order of the Garter dress, left

Reverse

Ian Rank-Broadley / 7/8/24 / 7/10, signature of the artist; date of accession; issue number

Modern medal (HCR139159)

Period

Modern

Person

Ian Rank-Broadley, Charles IV (Charles III), King of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth

Obverse

portrait of King Charles, in Order of the Garter dress, right

Reverse

Ian Rank-Broadley / 7/8/24 / 7/10, signature of the artist; date of accession; issue number

British commemorative plaque (HCR95072)

Period

Modern

Person

Percy Metcalfe, Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

bust of an older Sir Winston Churchill, left

Reverse

?hole?, ?for attachment of suspension ring?

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR96920)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, S. G. M. Adams, M. &. E. Adams, Jewellery Manufacturers, Leeds

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill in 'siren suit', left

Reverse

SIR / WINSTON / CHURCHILL / 1874-1965 / M.A., laurel wreath

Modern memorial medal (HCR96923)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

1874 1965 · WINSTON CHURCHILL ·, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, right

Reverse

'I / have nothing / to offer but / blood, toil, tears / and sweat' / W.C., laurel wreath; quotation from Churchill's first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister

Modern memorial medal (HCR96925)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

1874 1965 · WINSTON CHURCHILL ·, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, right

Reverse

'I / have nothing / to offer but / blood, toil, tears / and sweat' / W.C., laurel wreath; quotation from Churchill's first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister

Modern memorial medal (HCR96938)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

1874 1965 · WINSTON CHURCHILL ·, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, right

Reverse

'I / have nothing / to offer but / blood, toil, tears / and sweat' / W.C., laurel wreath; quotation from Churchill's first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister

British commemorative medallion (HCR96946)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

colourised printed portrait photograph of Sir Winston Churchill, facing, in bow-tie and suit

Reverse

THE GREAT BRITISH COLLECTION, two maces dividing the field into four; floral motif with the national flowers of the British Isles (rose, thistle, daffodil, shamrock)

American commemorative art bar (HCR98695)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Mint

The Washington Mint, OH (Modern) (stated mint)

Obverse

Sir Winston Churchill / 1874-1972 / MgV, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, facing, with polka dot bow tie; artist's signature (?)

Reverse

.999· FINE SILVER ONE OUNCE / THE WASHINGTON MINT, bust of George Washington, right, behind whom is the Washington Monument; logo

?Uruguayan? commemorative medal (HCR98699)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, portrait bust of Sir Winston Churchill, 3/4 right, smoking cigar in overcoat

Modern commemorative badge (HCR98716)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL / PEKA, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, 3/4 left, wearing bowtie and bowler hat

Reverse

mount

British commemorative medallet - fiftieth anniversary of the election of Sir Winston Churchill to the premiership (HCR98723)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL MAN OF THE CENTURY, full-length portrait of Sir Winston Churchill with bowler hat, suit, and cane

Reverse

· PRIME MINISTER & MINISTER OF DEFENCE · 10·5·40 - 25·7·45 / WE WILL / FIGHT THEM ON / THE BEACHES......, quotation from one of Sir Winston Churchill's speeches, with dates of Churchill's premiership

British commemorative medallion - centenary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill (HCR98817)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Michael Rizzello, Clementine Churchill

Mint

John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Obverse

Rizzello, Clementine Churchill and Sir Winston Churchill hand in arm, being married; artist's signature

Reverse

HONI·SOIT·QUI MAL·Y·PENSE / 12th September 1908 / Winston Churchill / and Clementine Hozier / married at St. Margaret's, / Westminster. . . 'I married / and lived happily / ever after. . .', inscription; quotation from letters/diaries/speeches; crest of the Order of the Garter, around; crowned lion with sword, left

British medal (HCR98819)

Period

Modern

Person

S. G. M. Adams

Obverse

portrait bust of S. G. M. Adams, the artist

Reverse

KIRKSTALL ABBEY, view of Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds

Austrian commemorative medal - Churchill Ninetieth Birthday Commemorative Medal (HCR98820)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Christopher Ironside, Gesellschaft für Münzen und Medaillen, Vienna

Mint

Austrian Mint, Vienna (Modern)

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL K.G. · O.M · 30 NOVEMBER 1874 · / IRONSIDE, head of Sir Winston Churchill, left; artist's signature

Reverse

· THIS WAS THEIR FINEST HOUR · / ÉGEL A 18 ·750 / C·I· / MAC Ⓐ 900, rampant lion, left, holding a standard with Union flag pennant; stamps; artist's initials

American challenge coin (HCR98824)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

UNITED STATES NAVY / DDG-81 / USS WINSTON S. CHURCHILL, colourised printed photograph of "United States Ship" (USS) "Winston S. Churchill" on the water; band of stars around

Reverse

☆ DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY ☆ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, crest of the United States Navy with "USS Constitution" and eagle; around, rope motif

Modern memorial medal (HCR98927)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

1874 1965 · WINSTON CHURCHILL ·, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, right

Reverse

'I / have nothing / to offer but / blood, toil, tears / and sweat' / W.C., laurel wreath; quotation from Churchill's first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister

Modern service medal - General Strike 1926, "National Emergency" (HCR135868)

Period

Modern

Person

Ernest Gillick

Mint

Tower

Obverse

FOR SERVICE IN / NATIONAL / EMERGENCY / MAY 1926, helmeted figure of Britannia seated holds a olive branch, in the field a winged emblem of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company between a rose and a thistle

Reverse

LARGITAS / MVNERIS / SALUS / REIPUBLICAE, three draped figures hold locomotives in their outstretched hands; acrostic formed by inscription for initials of the railway (L.M.S.R.)

Coronation medal of Edward VI (HCR95030)

Period

Modern

Person

Edward VI, king of England, 1547-1553, Henry Basse

Mint

London

Dating

1547

Obverse

EDWARDVS VI D G ANG FR E HIB REX FIDEI DEFNS E IN TERRIS ANG E HIB ECCLE CAPVT SVPREMUM CORONATVS EST MD XLVI XX FEBRVA ETATIS DECIMO, Half length figure of Edward VI right

Reverse

ΕΔΟΡΔΟΣ O EKTOΣ O THI TOΥ ΘΕΟΥ XAPITI THΣ AΓΓΛΙΑΣ ΦPAΓΧΙΑΣ TE KAI IBEINIAΣ BAΣIΛΕΥΣ THΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΗΣ, KAI THΣ EN ΓΗΙ EKKΛΗΣΙΑΣ AΓΓΛΙΚΗΣ KAI IBEPNIXHΣ H ΠΡΩΤΗ KEΦAΛΗ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΘΕΙΣ ΕΤΕΙ. X., inscription - Greek and Hebrew translations of the obverse legend

Trial strike for a modern medal (HCR95680)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

17th-19th centuries

Obverse

SHAKESPERE, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, right