CNG 91, Lot: 1608. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. George Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield. 1717-1790. Gilt Æ Medal (50mm, 70.53 g, 6h). Siege of Gibraltar. By G. Z. Weber. Dated 1782 in Roman numerals. GEORG · AVGVSTVS · ELIOTT · GIBRALTARIÆ · IMP, armored bust left, wearing Order of the Bath / NON · MILLE · CARINAE (even a thousand ships cannot take it), ships in action left against batteries upon harbor to right; MDCCLXXXII in exergue. BHM 249; Eimer 795. VF, obverse features guilding, a few stray marks in the fields. Rare.