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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 token (HCR152468)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1794

Modern token (HCR152469)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1794

British commemorative medal - Battle of 1st June 1794 (HCR152495)

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 (HCR152501)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1794

Obverse

bust of Admiral Earl Howe right

Reverse

Lord Howe's flagship, 'Queen Charlotte', sinking a French vessel

British historical medal - Essex Agricultural Society (HCR152542)

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

Modern coin (HCR152641)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Pice

Dating

1794

Modern coin (HCR152650)

Period

Modern

Denom.

double-pice

Dating

1794

Modern coin (HCR152667)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Half-pice

Dating

1794

Modern token (HCR152679)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1794

Modern token (HCR152680)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1794

British commemorative medal - Marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Caroline of Brunswick (HCR123892)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1795 (incorrectly dated 1797)

Obverse

GEORG · WALL · PRINC · ET CAROLIN · BRUNS · PR · / C · H · KUCHLER · F ·, jugate busts right

Reverse

JUNXIT . HYMEN TAEDIS ILLUSTRIBUS AMBOS. / NUPTIAE REGIAE LOND · / MDCCXCVII · / C · H · KUCHLER . FEC ·, winged male figure standing, holding torch and shields of Great Britain and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel