The First Medal to Depict an Englishman

397, Lot: 854. Estimate $150. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp TUDOR. John Kendal, general of the Knights of Rhodes. Circa 1400-1485. Æ Medal (56mm, 99.6 g, 12h). Ottoman Siege of Rhodes. After Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli. Dated 1480 (in Roman numerals, though a later electrotype). IO KENDAL RHODI TVRCVPELLERIVS, bust right / + TEMPORE OBSIDIONIS TVRCHORVM MCCCCLXXX, coat-of-arms. MI 17/3; Eimer 19; Hill 934. EF. The first medal to depict an Englishman.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.