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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 - Anti-Slavery Society medal (HCR123878)

Period

Modern

Dating

c. 1795

Obverse

AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER., kneeling Black slave raising hands in chains

Reverse

WHATSOEVER / YE WOULD THAT / MEN SHOULD DO / TO YOU, DO YE / EVEN SO TO / THEM., inscription

Modern token (HCR152462)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1793

Modern token (HCR152463)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1793

Modern token (HCR152465)

Period

Modern

Dating

1793

Modern token (HCR152466)

Period

Modern

Dating

1793

Modern token (HCR152467)

Period

Modern

Dating

1793

British award medal - Board of Agriculture (HCR152498)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland

Dating

1793

Obverse

laureate head of George III right within wreath, legend on scroll below

Reverse

female figure standing between plough and spade with serpent entwined around handle

French commemorative medal - Execution of Marie Antoinette (HCR152519)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1793

Obverse

MARIA ANTON · AUSTR · FR · ET NAV · REGINA. / NAT · 2 NOV · 1755 · NUP · 16 MAY 1770 · COR · 11 JUN · 1775., bust left

Reverse

ALTERA VENIT VICTIMA. / XVI. OCT . / MDCCXCIII ·, Queen being driven in cart to her execution

French commemorative medal - Execution of Marie Antoinette (HCR152520)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1793

Obverse

MARIA ANTON · AUSTR · FR · ET NAV · REGINA. / NAT · 2 NOV · 1755 · NUP · 16 MAY 1770 · COR · 11 JUN · 1775., bust left

Reverse

ALTERA VENIT VICTIMA. / XVI. OCT . / MDCCXCIII ·, Queen being driven in cart to her execution

French commemorative medal - Execution of Louis XVI (HCR152521)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1793

Obverse

LUD · XVI D:G · FR · ET NAV · REX · MAR · ANT · AUSTR · REG · / FATI INIQUI / C H K, jugate busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette right

Reverse

AN EST DOLOR PAR DOLORI NOSTRO ! / NATUS XXIII AUG MDCCLIV . / SUCC · X MAY MDCCLXXIV . / DECOLL · XXI JAN . / MDCCXCIII . / C · H · KUCHLER · FEC ·, King bids a tearful farewell to his family, guillotine in thronged square behind

French commemorative medal - Execution of Louis XVI (HCR152522)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1793

Obverse

LUD · XVI D:G · FR · ET NAV · REX · MAR · ANT · AUSTR · REG · / FATI INIQUI / C H K, jugate busts of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette right

Reverse

CRINEMQUE ROTANTES SANGUINEUM POPULIS ULULARUNT TRISTIA GALLI. / DROIT / DE / L'HOMME / VIVRE LIBR / XXI JANUARIUS / ANNO MDCCXCIII / P., King bids a tearful farewell to his family, guillotine in thronged square behind

Modern coin (HCR152569)

Period

Modern

Person

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1793

British historical medal - Essex Agricultural Society (HCR123854)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

[c. 1794]

Obverse

ESSEX AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY / INSTITUTED 1793 / C · H · KUCHLER F., Britannia seated left on shield, holding wreath and cornucopia, lion to right

Reverse

wreath

British commemorative medal - Battle of 1st June 1794 (HCR123861)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1794

Obverse

RIC · COMES HOWE THALASSIARCHA BRITAN . / PATRIÆ DECUS ET TUTAMEN · / C · H · K, bust of Admiral Earl Howe right

Reverse

NON SORTE SED VIRTUTE . / GALLOR · CLASSIS PROFLIG · / DIE 1 JUN 11 . / MDCCXCIV . / C · H · KUCHLER · F ·, Lord Howe's flagship, 'Queen Charlotte', sinking a French vessel

British commemorative medal - Battle of 1st June 1794 (HCR123862)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1794

Obverse

RIC · COMES HOWE THALASSIARCHA BRITAN . / PATRIÆ DECUS ET TUTAMEN · / C · H · K, bust of Admiral Earl Howe right

Reverse

NON SORTE SED VIRTUTE . / GALLOR · CLASSIS PROFLIG · / DIE 1 JUN 11 . / MDCCXCIV . / C · H · KUCHLER · F ·, Lord Howe's flagship, 'Queen Charlotte', sinking a French vessel

British commemorative medal - Battle of 1st June 1794 (HCR123863)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1794

Obverse

RIC · COMES HOWE THALASSIARCHA BRITAN . / PATRIÆ DECUS ET TUTAMEN · / C · H · K, bust of Admiral Earl Howe right

Reverse

NON SORTE SED VIRTUTE . / GALLOR · CLASSIS PROFLIG · / DIE 1 JUN 11 . / MDCCXCIV . / C · H · KUCHLER · F ·, Lord Howe's flagship, 'Queen Charlotte', sinking a French vessel