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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 (HCR8876)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR202024)

Period

Modern

Florey medal (HCR9812)

Period

Modern

Nobel prize (HCR6590)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR132101)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR132102)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR132103)

Period

Modern

Untitled coin (HCR132104)

Period

Modern

Modern service medal - General Strike 1926, "National Emergency" (HCR135868)

Period

Modern

Person

Ernest Gillick

Mint

Tower

Obverse

FOR SERVICE IN / NATIONAL / EMERGENCY / MAY 1926, helmeted figure of Britannia seated holds a olive branch, in the field a winged emblem of the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company between a rose and a thistle

Reverse

LARGITAS / MVNERIS / SALUS / REIPUBLICAE, three draped figures hold locomotives in their outstretched hands; acrostic formed by inscription for initials of the railway (L.M.S.R.)