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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 memorial plaque (HCR95061)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J.-J. Barre

Dating

1864?

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head left, with a heavy beard

Modern memorial plaque (HCR95063)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J.-J. Barre

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head left, with a heavy beard

Modern memorial plaque (HCR95064)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J.-J. Barre

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head left, with a heavy beard

Modern memorial medal (HCR95569)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

BORN 1564 / DIED 1616, bust facing, flanked with stars, with birth dates surrounding, within a beaded circle

Reverse

SHAKESPEARE'S / HOUSE, landscape of Shakespeare's house and birthplace, within a beaded circle; inscription in exergue

Modern memorial medal (HCR95570)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

BORN 1564 DIED 1616 / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare facing with birth dates surrounding; "William Shakespeare" in the style of a signature

Reverse

SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE / STRATFORD-ON-AVON, landscape of Stratford-upon-Avon with Tudor house (Shakespeare's birthplace)

Modern memorial medal (HCR95571)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

BORN 1564 DIED 1616 / WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare facing with birth dates surrounding; "William Shakespeare" in the style of a signature

Reverse

SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHPLACE / STRATFORD-ON-AVON, landscape of Stratford-upon-Avon with Tudor house (Shakespeare's birthplace)

Modern memorial medal (HCR95589)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

BORN 1564 / DIED 1616, bust facing, flanked with stars, with birth dates surrounding, within a beaded circle

Reverse

SHAKESPEARE'S / HOUSE, landscape of Shakespeare's house and birthplace, within a beaded circle; inscription in exergue

British commemorative medal - tercentenary of the birth of William Shakespeare (HCR95652)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

1864?

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BORN APRIL 23. 1564. DIED APRIL 23. 1616, draped bust of William Shakespeare bare head left

British commemorative medal - tercentenary of the birth of William Shakespeare (HCR95653)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, Ralph Heaton & Son

Dating

c. 1864?

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKSPERE / HEATON. BIRM. / DIED APRIL 23 1616, draped bust of William Shakespeare, right

Reverse

BORN IN THIS HOUSE / APRIL 23 / 1564 / STRATFORD ON AVON / HEATON BIRM., view of Shakespeare's house and birthplace; inscription in exergue

Modern commemorative medal (HCR95657)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

1864?

Obverse

SHAKSPEARE, classicizing bust of William Shakespeare, left

British token (HCR95665)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

sixpence

Dating

1864?

Obverse

portrait of William Shakespeare, closely after the Chandos portrait, left, with beaded rim

Reverse

TO BE SPENT THE SAME EVENING / AS RECEIVED / T. JONES MARE FAIR / NORTHAMPTON / SHAKESPEARE SALOON / 6 D, inscription in circles around the centre

British token (HCR95673)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

5 Shilling Piece

Dating

c. 1864?

Obverse

· EDUCATION UNION · FIVE SHILLINGS, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, facing

British token (HCR95674)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Denom.

5 Shilling Piece

Dating

c. 1864?

Obverse

· EDUCATION UNION · FIVE SHILLINGS, bust of William Shakespeare, loosely after the Chandos portrait, facing

British commemorative medal (HCR95677)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, H. Brown

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: BORN APRIL 23. 1564: DIED APRIL 23. 1616 / H. BROWN · CRYSTAL PALACE, draped bust of William Shakespeare bare head left

Reverse

THE ANCIENT ORDER OF FORESTERS, crest of the Ancient Order of Foresters, with two male figures flanking a shield, topped by a stag; above, an open eye

Modern pendant (HCR95691)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

SHAKSPEARE, bust of William Shakespeare, facing

Modern medal die (HCR95692)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

bust of William Shakespeare, left

British commemorative medal (HCR95705)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

1864?

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE / BORN APRIL 23ᴿᴰ 1574 / DIED APᴸ 23ᴿᴰ 1616, draped bust of William Shakespeare facing, within a fluted rim

Reverse

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH / STRATFORD ON AVON, landscape view of the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon (where Shakespeare is buried), within a fluted rim

Modern memorial medal (HCR95842)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare

Dating

c. 1864

Obverse

BORN 1564 / DIED 1616, bust facing, flanked with stars, with birth dates surrounding, within a beaded circle

Reverse

BISHOP / SHAKESPEARE'S / HOUSE, landscape of Shakespeare's house and birthplace, within a beaded circle; inscription in exergue

Modern memorial medal (HCR96484)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, J.-J. Barre

Dating

c. 1864?

Obverse

SHAKESPEARE / CAST WITH 100 % FRODAIR, bust of William Shakespeare, bare head left, with a heavy beard

British commemorative medal - centenary of the birth of Robert Burns (HCR115808)

Period

Modern

Person

Pinches, Robert Burns

Dating

25th January 1859

Obverse

ROBERT BURNS, bust of Robert Burns, three-quarters left, dressed in characteristic high-necked shirt and open-breasted jacket, with locks of hair falling over the forehead in a manner not unlike the Nasmyth portrait

Reverse

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE FIRST CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF ROBERT BURNS 1859 · / WOOD NOTES WILD / BETTER A WEE BUSH THAN NAE BIELD, seal of Robert Burns