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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 coin (HCR152631)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Half-Ackey

Dating

1796

Modern coin (HCR152635)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Ackey

Dating

1796

Modern token - Myddelton Token (HCR154653)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1796

Obverse

BRITISH SETTLEMENT KENTUCKY. / 1796., standing figure of Liberty welcoming standing figure of Hope with infant genii, anchor and cornucopia in background

Reverse

PAYABLE BY P·P·P· MYDDELTON., Britannia seated left in forlorn pose, regarding a cap of Liberty on the ground

Modern coin (HCR152310)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Half-dub

Dating

1797

Modern coin (HCR152401)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797

Modern coin (HCR152402)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Obverse

laureate and draped bust right

Reverse

Britannia seated left, three small dots raised on rock to right

Modern coin (HCR152403)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152404)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152405)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152406)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Obverse

laureate head right

Reverse

Britannia seated left

Modern coin (HCR152407)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Obverse

laureate head right

Reverse

Britannia seated left, "K" on rock to right

Modern coin (HCR152408)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (late Soho)

Obverse

laureate head right

Reverse

Britannia seated left, "K" on rock to right

Modern coin (HCR152409)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Obverse

laureate and draped bust right

Reverse

helmeted Britannia seated left on globe; "K." below shield

Modern coin (HCR152410)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Penny

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Obverse

laureate and draped bust right

Reverse

helmeted Britannia seated left on globe; "K." below shield

Modern coin (HCR152411)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Denom.

Twopence

Dating

1797

Modern coin (HCR152412)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Twopence

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152413)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Twopence

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152415)

Period

Modern

Person

George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Twopence

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Modern coin (HCR152565)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler, George III of Hanover, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, Elector (King from 1814) of Hanover, 1760 - 1820

Mint

Soho, Birmingham (Modern)

Denom.

Halfpenny

Dating

1797 (early Soho)

Obverse

laureate and draped bust right

Reverse

Britannia seated left

Modern coin (HCR152573)

Period

Modern

Denom.

Forty-Eigth-Rupee

Dating

1797

Obverse

balemark

Reverse

BY WISDOM AND FORCE, elephant standing left, denomination below