424, Lot: 653. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GREAT BRITAIN, Hanover. George III. 1760-1820. Æ Medal (48mm, 39.17 g, 12h). Award Medal of the Surgeon’s Company (later The Royal College of Surgeons). By Thomas Pingo. Dated 1767 (
in Roman numerals). QVÆ PROSVNT OMNIBVS ARTES, company coat-of-arms / The classical physician Galen standing right, looking at a skeleton lying left on rock outcropping inscribed T · PINGO · F; rocky landscape in background; exergue blank. Eimer,
Pingo 41; BHM 110. EF, brown surfaces, a few light marks.
Purchased from Michael Agathe, 8 October 2011.