Homage to Collectors
temp. WINDSOR. British Art Medals Society. Æ Medal (95mm, 300 g, 12h).
Homage to Collectors. By John Lobbam. Struck 1990. H/OM/AGE surrounded by squirrel, to right, hiding coin, and magpie, to left, holding Pisanello's medal of John VIII Palaeologus in his beak / Collector running left, wearing deerstalker cap, carrying specimen bag, and holding a large butterfly net while attempting to catch a coin to upper left; to left, TO/ COLLECT-/ORS. EF. A humorous depiction of the ‘Hobby of Kings’.
