302, Lot: 524. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Lord Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley. 1760-1842. Æ Medal (41mm, 39.01 g, 12h). The Capture of Seringapatam. By G. Mills and N. G. A. Brenet. Dated 1799, but struck circa 1820. Bare head left / Two British soldiers, one holding an ensign, the other attacking a fallen native soldier. BHM 478; Eimer 904. Near EF, brown surfaces, scattered scratches.

Struck by James Mudie, perhaps initially intended for but not included in his medallic series of British Victories.

Wellesley was sent to India as Governor-General in 1797, and soon after learned of an alliance between the French and the Mysorean ruler Tipu Sultan. This threat ultimately resulted in the storming of Seringapatam, capital of Mysore. Tipu’s forces were outnumbered, and the king was killed in action.