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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.

Untitled coin (HCR98838)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

5 dollars

yemen (HCR98855)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

Rial

yemen (HCR98856)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

Rial

cayman (HCR98859)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

25 Dollars

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill, in bowtie, 3/4 left

tristan da cunha girls of the world (HCR98865)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt ('FDR'), Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth

Denom.

Dollar Crown

Modern British commemorative coin (HCR98866)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Raphael David Maklouf

Mint

Pobjoy Mint, Surrey (Modern)

Denom.

14 ECU (European Currency Unit) (hypothetical currency) = 14 Thaler

Obverse

ELIZABETH II GIBRALTAR · 1993, third portrait crowned bust of Queen Elizabeth II, right / RDM / PM

Reverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL / 14 ECUS, quarter-length portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in military cap and great coat, right, with circle of stars to his right

1/4 ecu (HCR98872)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

1/4 ECU (European Currency Unit) (hypothetical currency) = 1/4 Thaler

1/4 ecu (HCR98873)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Denom.

1/4 ECU (European Currency Unit) (hypothetical currency) = 1/4 Thaler

Untitled coin (HCR98886)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Untitled coin (HCR98910)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Modern memorial medal (HCR98927)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Obverse

1874 1965 · WINSTON CHURCHILL ·, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, right

Reverse

'I / have nothing / to offer but / blood, toil, tears / and sweat' / W.C., laurel wreath; quotation from Churchill's first speech to Parliament as Prime Minister