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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 (HCR9341)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR167096)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR167097)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR167098)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR167099)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR5696)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR170176)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR170177)

Period

Modern

Coronation medal of Edward VI (HCR95030)

Period

Modern

Person

Edward VI, king of England, 1547-1553, Henry Basse

Mint

London

Dating

1547

Obverse

EDWARDVS VI D G ANG FR E HIB REX FIDEI DEFNS E IN TERRIS ANG E HIB ECCLE CAPVT SVPREMUM CORONATVS EST MD XLVI XX FEBRVA ETATIS DECIMO, Half length figure of Edward VI right

Reverse

ΕΔΟΡΔΟΣ O EKTOΣ O THI TOΥ ΘΕΟΥ XAPITI THΣ AΓΓΛΙΑΣ ΦPAΓΧΙΑΣ TE KAI IBEINIAΣ BAΣIΛΕΥΣ THΣ ΠΙΣΤΕΩΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΗΣ, KAI THΣ EN ΓΗΙ EKKΛΗΣΙΑΣ AΓΓΛΙΚΗΣ KAI IBEPNIXHΣ H ΠΡΩΤΗ KEΦAΛΗ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΘΕΙΣ ΕΤΕΙ. X., inscription - Greek and Hebrew translations of the obverse legend

Trial strike for a modern medal (HCR95680)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

17th-19th centuries

Obverse

SHAKESPERE, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, right

Trial strike for a modern medal (HCR95681)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

17th-19th centuries

Obverse

SHAKESPERE, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, right

Dutch commemorative medal - discovery of the Gunpowder Plot (HCR155270)

Period

Modern

Dating

1605

Obverse

DETECTVS . QVI . LATVIT . S . C ., a snake gliding amongst lilies and roses; cinquefoil

Reverse

NON DORMITASTI ANTISTES IACOBI. / יהוה, the name of Jehovah, in Hebrew, radiate, within a crown of thorns; cinquefoil; chronogrammatic inscription (MDCIIIII = 1605) taken from the 121st Psalm, "He that keepeth thee will not sleep."

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155311)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four oval garnished shields, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, united at their bases, from which issue rays

Reverse

IN · HONOR'· / CARO'. PRINC'. / MAG' BRI'. FR'. / ET . HI'. NAT'. 29 / · MAII · 1630 ·, an ornamented oval tablet on which is an inscription

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155315)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four oval garnished shields, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, united at their bases, from which issue rays

Reverse

IN · HONOR'· / CARO'. PRINC'. / MAG' BRI'. FRA'. / ET . HIB'. NAT'. 29 / · MAII · 1630 ·, an ornamented oval tablet on which is an inscription

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155316)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four shields, bearing, 1. England, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, crowned, united by links at their bases, from which issue rays

Reverse

IN · HONOR'· / CARO'. PRINC'. / MAG' BRI'. FR'. / ET . HI'. NAT'. 29 / · MAII · 1630 ·, an ornamented oval tablet on which is an inscription

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155317)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four oval garnished shields, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, united at their bases, from which issue rays

Reverse

IN · HONOR'· / CARO'. PRINC'. / MAG' BRI'. FRA'. / ET . HIB'. NAT'. 29 / · MAII · 1630 ·, an ornamented oval tablet on which is an inscription

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155318)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685, Nicholas Briot

Dating

1630

Obverse

· B · HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four shields, bearing, 1. England, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, crowned, united by links at their bases, from which issue rays.

Reverse

· MEM · / CAROLI · PRIN · / MAGN · BRITANN · / FRANC · HIBERN · / NATI · XXIX · MAII · / BAPTIZ · XXVII · / IVN · MDCXXX · / · S ·, inscription

British (or Dutch?) historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155321)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four heart-shaped shields, united at their bases, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland

Reverse

HONOR' . PRIN'. / MAG' . BRIT' . / FRA' . ET · HIB' . / NAT' . 29 · MAI' . / ANN' . 1630., On a square tablet, externally ornamented

British historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155323)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS . ANGLORVM . NVLLI., Four oval garnished shields, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland, united at their bases, from which issue rays

Reverse

IN · HONOR'· / CARO'. PRINC'. / MAG' BRI'. FR'. / ET . HI'. NAT'. 29 / · MAII · 1630 ·, an ornamented oval tablet on which is an inscription

British (or Dutch?) historical medal - birth of Charles II (HCR155337)

Period

Modern

Person

Charles II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1649–1685

Dating

1630

Obverse

HACTENVS · ANGLORVM · NVLLI ·, Four heart-shaped shields, united at their bases, bearing, 1. France and England quarterly, 2. Scotland, 3. France, 4. Ireland

Reverse

HONOR' . PRIN'. / MAG' . BRIT' . / FRA' . ET · HIB' . / NAT' . 29 · MAI' . / ANN' . 1630., on a square tablet, externally ornamented