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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 memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98615)

Period

Modern

Person

Messrs Spink & Son Ltd., Frank Kovacs, Sir Winston Churchill, David Low

Mint

Spink & Son, Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1965

Obverse

KOVACS / WINSTON CHURCHILL / 1874-1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, facing, slightly to left; behind him, books and paintbrushes

Reverse

LOW, DES. SPINK, FEC. / "VERY WELL, ALONE", soldier raising fist against a flight of enemy airplanes; oncoming channel around, symbolizing the British defence in the Battle of Britain, after a famous cartoon

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98616)

Period

Modern

Person

Pinches, Sir Winston Churchill, A. Loewenthal, B. A. Seaby, Ltd.

Dating

1965

Obverse

CHURCHILL / V 1945 / A·LŒWENTAL· / LINCOLN / OB. 24. JAN. 1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill to left

Reverse

· UNFLINCHING · INDOMITABLE · HIS · SPIRIT · SAVED · BRITAIN · AND · SO · THE · WORLD · · / WE · WILL FIGHT · ON / LAND ON · SEA / AND · IN THE · AIR / UNTIL VICTORY / IS WON / AL, hand, rising from cloud, holding victory torch; artist's cypher

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98617)

Period

Modern

Person

Pinches, Sir Winston Churchill, A. Loewenthal, B. A. Seaby, Ltd.

Dating

1965

Obverse

CHURCHILL / V 1945 / A·LŒWENTAL· / LINCOLN / OB. 24. JAN. 1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill to left

Reverse

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98618)

Period

Modern

Person

Pinches, Sir Winston Churchill, A. Loewenthal, B. A. Seaby, Ltd.

Dating

1965

Obverse

CHURCHILL / V 1945 / A·LŒWENTAL· / LINCOLN / OB. 24. JAN. 1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill to left

Reverse

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98619)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, C. M. Casto

Mint

Wendell's, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Modern)

Denom.

Dollar

Dating

1965

Obverse

SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHVRCHILL 1874 - 1965, bust of Churchill facing, slightly left; beaded border

Reverse

FRIEND AND HONORARY CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES / IN / MEMORIAM / BERTY / CA, Britannia seated to right, with trident and supporting two overlapping shields; Union Flag on one, the other American with a diagonal scroll; beaded border

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98620)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Ralph J. Menconi, Presidential Art Medals Inc., Englewood, Ohio

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1965

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL / 1874 / 1965 / RALPH J. MENCONI / © PAM, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, facing

Reverse

seal of the Royal Arms of the United Kingdom, right foreground; smaller seal of the United States in left foreground; behind, the Houses of Parliament, clouds above

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98621)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, C. M. Casto

Mint

Wendell's, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Modern)

Denom.

Dollar

Dating

1965

Obverse

SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHVRCHILL 1874 - 1965, bust of Churchill facing, slightly left; beaded border

Reverse

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98622)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, C. M. Casto

Mint

Wendell's, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Modern)

Denom.

Dollar

Dating

1965

Obverse

SIR WINSTON SPENCER CHVRCHILL 1874 - 1965, bust of Churchill facing, slightly left; beaded border

Reverse

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98623)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Wieslaw Antoni Pater, Edgar John Kohler

Dating

1965

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

The Rᵗ HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER-CHURCHILL. K.G., O.M., C.H · 1874 1965: / HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE · / TK&S, Churchill family arms shield with the Garter; assay mark

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98624)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Wieslaw Antoni Pater, Edgar John Kohler

Dating

1965

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

THE RT. HON. / SIR / WINSTON / SEPNCER-CHURCHILL, / K.G., O.M., C.H. / 1874-1965, inscription; laurel wreath below

German memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98625)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Remo Cademartori

Mint

Deutsche Numismatik, Frankfurt-on-Main (Modern)

Dating

1965

Obverse

JEFES EN LA SEGUNDA GUERRA / CHIEFS IN THE SECOND WAR 1939 1945 / CHURCHILL / G. BRT. G.B. / R.B., head of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to right

Reverse

CUSUS / UT MEMORIA / VIVAT MCMLXV / V DOKATEN 986, inscriptional type in laurel wreath, date in small rectangular tablet

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98626)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Mint

John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1965

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL / 1874 1965 / L. E. PINCHES, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left, in polka dot bow tie; artist's signature

Reverse

H(ON)I · SO(IT · QVI MAL) · Y · P(E)NSE · / FIEL PERO DESDICHADO, Churchill family arms; a shield quartering the arms of Churchill with those of Spencer above Marlborough motto inscribed in the form of a banner; crest of the Order of the Garter, around

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98627)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Wieslaw Antoni Pater, Edgar John Kohler

Dating

1965

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

THE RT. HON. / SIR / WINSTON / SEPNCER-CHURCHILL, / K.G., O.M., C.H. / 1874-1965 / J. T. & Co 22 2, inscription; laurel wreath below; mintmarks

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98628)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill

Mint

John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1965

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL / 1874 1965 / L. E. PINCHES, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left, in polka dot bow tie; artist's signature

Reverse

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98630)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Wieslaw Antoni Pater, Edgar John Kohler

Dating

1965

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

THE RT. HON. / SIR / WINSTON / SEPNCER-CHURCHILL, / K.G., O.M., C.H. / 1874-1965 / J. T. & Co, inscription; laurel wreath below; mintmarks

Canadian memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98633)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Andrechuk

Dating

1965

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL / BI AA, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left; artist's monogram

Reverse

IN WAR: RESOLUTION / IN VICTORY: MAGNANIMITY / IN DEFEAT: DEFIANCE / IN PEACE: GOODWILL / SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL / NOVEMBER 30, 1874 / JANUARY 24, 1965, crossed British and Canadian flags, at half-mast, forming a "V for Victory" sign; quotation from Sir Winston Churchill

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98634)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Wieslaw Antoni Pater, Edgar John Kohler

Dating

1965

Obverse

bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

The Rᵗ HON. SIR WINSTON SPENCER-CHURCHILL. K.G., O.M., C.H · 1874 1965: / HONI · SOIT · QUI · MAL · Y · PENSE ·, Churchill family arms shield with the Garter