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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 (HCR146232)

Period

Modern

Person

J Westwood, John Philip Kemble

Dating

1798

Obverse

IOHANNES PHILIPPUS KEMBLE, Draped (togate) bust of John Kemble facing, bare head turned to left

Reverse

TRAGŒDUS / ANGLICUS / AET . XLI. / MDCCXCVIII, Inscription within open wreath, masks of tragicomedy below

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146235)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1798

Obverse

Peace holds shield with medallic portrait of Nelson

Reverse

panorama of the British fleet going into action

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146237)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1798

Obverse

Peace holds shield with medallic portrait of Nelson

Reverse

panorama of the British fleet going into action

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146240)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1798

Obverse

Peace holds shield with medallic portrait of Nelson

Reverse

panorama of the British fleet going into action

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146241)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Dating

1798

Obverse

Peace holds shield with medallic portrait of Nelson

Reverse

panorama of the British fleet going into action

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146242)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Elder

Dating

1798

Obverse

VIRTUTE NIHIL OBSTAT & ARMIS / VICTORY OF THE NILE. / AUGₜ. I. 1798. / WYON, seated Victory holds medallic bust of Nelson, lion, palm tree, and harp to right, pyramid behind

Reverse

SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES / NOV. 29 LAUS DEO 1798, fouled anchor and shield

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146243)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Elder

Dating

1798

Obverse

VIRTUTE NIHIL OBSTAT & ARMIS / VICTORY OF THE NILE. / AUGₜ. I. 1798. / WYON, seated Victory holds medallic bust of Nelson, lion, palm tree, and harp to right, pyramid behind

Reverse

SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES / NOV. 29 LAUS DEO 1798, fouled anchor and shield

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR146248)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Elder

Dating

1798

Obverse

VIRTUTE NIHIL OBSTAT & ARMIS / VICTORY OF THE NILE. / AUGₜ. I. 1798. / WYON, seated Victory holds medallic bust of Nelson, lion, palm tree, and harp to right, pyramid behind

Reverse

SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES / NOV. 29 LAUS DEO 1798, fouled anchor and shield

British commemorative medal - Victories by Land and Sea (HCR146250)

Period

Modern

Person

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

Dating

1798

Obverse

GEORGIUS III · D : G · MAGN · BRIT · FR · ET HIB · REX · / C · H · KÜCHLER. FEC ·, armoured and draped bust of George III left

British historical medal - Matthew Boulton, Medallic Scale (HCR146252)

Period

Modern

Person

Matthew Boulton

Dating

1798

Obverse

MATT · BOULTON ESQᵣ F · R · S · L · & ED · F · R · I · & A · S ., bust right

Reverse

in the centre head of science, around striking specifications for coin and medal production in concentric circles

Modern coin (HCR152330)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Keping

Dating

1798/1213h

Reverse

with incorrect denomination ‘Three Kepings’

Modern coin (HCR152334)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Two kepings

Dating

1798/1213h

Reverse

with incorrect denomination ‘Three Kepings’

Modern coin (HCR152337)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Three kepings

Dating

1798/1213h

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR152342)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Elder

Dating

1798

Obverse

VIRTUTE NIHIL OBSTAT & ARMIS / VICTORY OF THE NILE. / AUGₜ. I. 1798. / WYON, seated Victory holds medallic bust of Nelson, lion, palm tree, and harp to right, pyramid behind

Reverse

SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES / NOV. 29 LAUS DEO 1798, fouled anchor and shield

British commemorative medal - Battle of the Nile (HCR152343)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Elder

Dating

1798

Obverse

VIRTUTE NIHIL OBSTAT & ARMIS / VICTORY OF THE NILE. / AUGₜ. I. 1798. / WYON, seated Victory holds medallic bust of Nelson, lion, palm tree, and harp to right, pyramid behind

Reverse

SUB HOC SIGNO VINCES / NOV. 29 LAUS DEO 1798, fouled anchor and shield