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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.

British historical medal (HCR159673)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159674)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159675)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159676)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159677)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159678)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159679)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159680)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159681)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159682)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159683)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159684)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159685)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159686)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159687)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159688)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159689)

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Modern

British historical medal (HCR159690)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR159691)

Period

Modern

British laudatory medal - King George IV (HCR159692)

Period

Modern

Person

George IV, King of Great Britain and Ireland, (Alfred) Joseph Stothard = I S

Obverse

GEORGIUS IV · REX . / I S, laureate, cuirassed draped bust of George IV, right

Reverse

REGI OPTIMO POTENTISSIMO / MDCCCXXIII, Victory seated left holding a wreath aloft in right hand; her left hand resting on the shield of Hanover and holding a palm branch. Attributes of naval supremacy and learning around.