Watch List notes:

GREAT BRITAIN. Medal (2) (White metal, 50mm, 32.48 and 35.54 g 12). (1) Map of the World, Eastern and Western Hemispheres. By T Halliday (?). Struck c. 1820, by T. Halliday (?). The Eastern Hemisphere, with Australia identified as 'New Holland.' Rev. The Western Hemisphere. BHM -. Eimer 1139b. Rev. Distance Medal, by J. Ottley, medallist, in Birmingham, c. 1893-1900. On the obverse, a table of the distances between London and 32 other English (no Welsh or Scotch) cites arranged in circular form; on the reverse: a table listing the distances between London and 13 popular bathing places; as well as the distances between London and, on the left, the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and, on the right, the Scotch universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and St. Andrew's. BHM -. Eimer -. Spink Numismatic Circular II.10 (September 1893), p. 365, no. IV. cf. E-Sylum 15.3 (15 January 2012), article 13 (http://tinyurl.com/mkb3bcd [these medals cited]). A pair of fascinating geographical medals. Both lightly toned. Extremely fine.


Ex CNG 96, 14 May 2014, 1453 and Noble 90, 31 March 2009, 656.