255, Lot: 460. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Admiral Horatio Nelson, Baron Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe. 1758-1805. Æ Medal (38mm, 28.44 g, 10h). Lord Nelson and the Foudroyant. Birmingham mint. Struck 1897, from the copper salvaged from the vessel after its breaking up. ·:· HORATIO. VISCOUNT NELSON ·:·, bust facing slightly left, in military attire and wearing tricorne decorated with diamond aigrette; in two lines in exergue, BORN, 29th SEPTEMBER, 1758/DIED, 21st OCTOBER, 1805 / “FOUDROYANT,” LORD NELSON’S “FLAGSHIP.”, the Foudroyant under sail left on water; legend in five lines in exergue. BHM 3613; Eimer 1813; Hardy 107. Near EF.

From the C.W. Pearson Collection.