CNG 85, Lot: 1632. Estimate $150. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

HANOVER. temp. Victoria. 1837-1901. Æ Medal (76mm, 308.36 g, 12h). City of London Series: Opening of the New Council Chamber at Guildhall. By J. S. and A. B. Wyon. Dated 1884. Detailed view of the interior of the Council Chamber, surrounded by panels inscribed THE NEW COUNCIL CHAMBER ·/GUILDHALL LONDON ·/OPENED 2ND OCTOBER 1884 ·; dragon-floral scroll to left and right; civic coat-of-arms and two oak branches in exergue / Londinia standing right, attended by Mercury, to left, and Commerce, to right, and addressing her council kneeling and standing to far right; J.S. & A.B. WYON to lower left; in exergue, wreath between banner inscribed DOMINE DIRIGE NOS, all over crossed civic sword and mace. BHM 3177; Eimer 1705; Welch 19. EF, brown surfaces, light edge nock.

From a California Collection of British Historical Medals.