285, Lot: 532. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Sir John Evans. President of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1874-1908. Æ Medal (57mm, 93.58 g, 12h). Golden Jubilee of the Royal Numismatic Society of London. By J. Pinches. Dated 1887. IOH · EVANS · D · C · L · S · R · S · PRAESIDI, bust right; PINCHES·F· on shoulder / SOCIETAS NVMISM · LOND · ANNOS CONST · LI · (The Numismatic Society of London, founded fifty-one years ago), SIC/L/SIC/C (fifty down, onward to one-hundred) in four lines; all within laurel wreath; MDCCCLXXXVII below. BHM 3344; Eimer 1729. EF, brown surfaces.

Serving as the president to the Royal Numismatic Society for nearly 35 years, Sir John Evans was also a prominent antiquarian and author, as well as a pioneering figure in the fields of prehistoric archaeology and geology. Continuing his legacy today, the Ashmolean Museum instituted the Sir John Evans Centenary Project in 2003, formally launching a corresponding website on the one-hundredth anniversary of his birth in 2008. The project fully catalogs his collection and provides an examination of the numerous intellectual networks of which he was a part.