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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 historical medal (HCR123832)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123833)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123834)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123835)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123836)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123837)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123838)

Period

Modern

British historical medal (HCR123843)

Period

Modern

British commemorative medal - Defeat of Sultan Tippoo (HCR123845)

Period

Modern

Person

Conrad Heinrich Küchler

Obverse

CAR · MARCILIO CORNWALLIS STRATEGUS ACERRIMUS. / C · H · KÜCHLER · FEC :, uniformed bust of Marquis Cornwallis left

Reverse

FAS SIT PARCERE HOSTI. / SULTANO TIPPOO DEVICTO / OBSIDES RECIPIT / MDCCXCII. / C · H · K · FECIT ., Cornwallis receives the sons of Sultan Tipoo as hostages