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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 fantastical commemorative coin (HCR98877)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Ian Rank-Broadley

Denom.

Pound

Dating

2018

Obverse

THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITIAN AND NOTHERN IRELAND / £1 2018 / Queen Elizabeth II, 3/4 facing portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, loosely after the fourth portrait by Ian Rank-Broadley

Reverse

☆ BRITISH PRIME MINISTER ☆ WINSTON CHURCHILL, colourized printed photo of Sir Winston Churchill, with cigar in mouth

British commemorative coin - 55th anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill (HCR98985)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Head of the Commonwealth, Raphael David Maklouf

Denom.

Halfcrown

Dating

2020

Obverse

D·G· REGINA · GIBRALTAR · 2020 · HALF CROWN · ELIZABETH II · / RDM, head of Queen Elizabeth II, right, wearing the George IV State Diadem, legend around; artist's initials

Reverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL · 1874-1965 / WE SHALL NEVER / SURRENDER / DO, bust of Sir Winston Churchill, 3/4 right, making "V for Victory" sign and smoking a cigar; artist's initials