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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 commemorative medal - Golden Jubilee of George III (HCR140086)

Period

Modern

Person

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, T. Wyon the Elder, N. Hyde

Dating

1810

Obverse

GEO · III . BORN 4ₜₕ· JUNE 1738 . ASCEND.D· THE THRONE OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1760. / COMPLETED 50ₜₕ. YEAR / OF HIS REIGN / OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1810., uniformed bust left wearing wig

Reverse

THE FIFTIETH YEAR / FROGMORE., Britannia with three infants, who hold heart, the cloud-like plinth inscribed

British commemorative medal - Golden Jubilee of George III (HCR146425)

Period

Modern

Person

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, T. Wyon the Elder, N. Hyde

Dating

1810

Obverse

GEO · III . BORN 4ₜₕ· JUNE 1738 . ASCEND.D· THE THRONE OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1760. / COMPLETED 50ₜₕ. YEAR / OF HIS REIGN / OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1810., uniformed bust left wearing wig

Reverse

THE FIFTIETH YEAR / FROGMORE., Britannia with three infants, who hold heart, the cloud-like plinth inscribed

Trial strike for a British commemorative medal - Golden Jubilee of George III (HCR152347)

Period

Modern

Person

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, N. Hyde

Dating

1810

Obverse

uniformed bust left wearing wig

British commemorative medal - Imprisonment of Sir Francis Burdett (HCR152489)

Period

Modern

Dating

1810

Obverse

bust right

Reverse

legend within radiate circle

British commemorative medal - Nottinghamshire Riflemen (HCR152490)

Period

Modern

Person

T. Wyon the Younger

Dating

1810

Obverse

rifleman keeling left, taking aim

Reverse

hunting items within wreath

British commemorative medal - Golden Jubilee of George III (HCR152500)

Period

Modern

Person

George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, T. Wyon the Elder, N. Hyde

Dating

1810

Obverse

GEO · III . BORN 4ₜₕ· JUNE 1738 . ASCEND.D· THE THRONE OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1760. / COMPLETED 50ₜₕ. YEAR / OF HIS REIGN / OCT.ᵣ 25.ₜₕ 1810., uniformed bust left in periwig

Reverse

FROGMORETHE FIFTIETH YEAR / FROGMORE., Britannia with three infants, who hold heart, the cloud-like plinth inscribed