418, Lot: 611. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Cpt. James Cook, explorer, navigator, and cartographer. 1728-1779. Æ Medal (44mm, 35.55 g, 12h). Memorial to Captain Cook. By L. Pingo. Struck 1784. IAC · COOK OCEANI INVESTIGATOR ACERRIMVS (the most intrepid detective of the seas), bust left; in two lines below, REG SOC LOND/SOCIO SVO / NIL INTENTATVM NOSTRI LIQVERE (our men have left nothing unattempted), Fortune standing left, leaning upon column to right, cradling spear in left arm, and resting right hand upon rudder set on globe to left; in three lines in exergue, AVSPICIIS/GEORGII/III. BHM 258; Eimer 780. Near EF, a few marks.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 920895 (April 2012).