439, Lot: 773. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. John Freind. 1675-1728. Æ Medal (58mm, 70.85 g, 12h). On his Death. By Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain. Undated, but struck circa 1728. IOANNES · FREIND · COLL · MED · LOND · ET · REG · S · S ·, bust left; SV on truncation of bust / MEDICINA · VETVS · ET · NOVA ·, ancient and modern physicians, standing vis-à-vis on ground lines with scientific instruments about, clasping right hands; VNAM FACIMVS/VTRAMQVE · in two lines in exergue. Medicina in Nummis 1122; MI 488/28; Eimer 515. EF, brown surfaces, traces of deposits in devices.

From the Virtus Collection. Ex Baldwin’s of St. James’s 7 (21 June 2017), lot 674; Reverend William Lewis Gantz (1873-1940) Collection, (Glendining, 23 June 1941), lot 1948 (part of).

A Fellow of the Royal Society, and member of Parliament for Launceston (1722), John Freind was imprisoned of a short while on suspicion of Jacobite leanings,. Upon his realeas, he appointed physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales (father of George III) and later, Queen Caroline. Freind was published extensively.