395, Lot: 604. Estimate $100. Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Sir John Evans, numismatist and President of the Royal Numismatic Society. 1823-1908. Æ Medal (57mm, 93.7 g, 12h). Golden Jubilee of the Royal Numismatic Society of London. By J. Pinches. Dated 1887 (in Roman numerals). IOH EVANS D C L S R S PRAESIDI, bust right / SOCIETAS NVMISM LOND ANNOS CONST LI, SIC/ L/ SIC/ C within wreath; MDCCCLXXXVII in exergue. 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.