Baldwin & Sons
Auction 93 5 May 2015
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, World Medals, India, James Prinsep (1799-1840), Assay Master of the Calcutta and Benares Mints, Silver Medal, 1840, by William Wyon, bare head left, rev view of "Prinsep's Ghaut", ERECTED TO HIS HONOR BY HIS FELLOW CITIZENS - JAMES PRINSEP GHAUT CALCUTTA, 48.5mm (BHM 1966, R2; Puddester 840.1.3). About extremely fine and extremely rare in silver.
Prinsep was a scholar, orientalist, numismatist and antiquary, and the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Following his early death the Ghaut was erected in his honour on the bank of the Hooghly River and, now restored, stands in the shadow of the Vidyasagar Setu or second Hooghly Bridge. It was completed in 1843 to the Palladian designs of Captain W Fitzgerald.
Estimate: £300-400
Prinsep was a scholar, orientalist, numismatist and antiquary, and the founding editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Following his early death the Ghaut was erected in his honour on the bank of the Hooghly River and, now restored, stands in the shadow of the Vidyasagar Setu or second Hooghly Bridge. It was completed in 1843 to the Palladian designs of Captain W Fitzgerald.
Estimate: £300-400