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Auction 7  21 Jun 2017
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Lot 674

Estimate: 80 GBP
Price realized: 70 GBP
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British Commemorative Medals, John Freind (1675-1728), Physician, copper tribute medal, 1728, by Ferdinand de Saint-Urbain, bust l. with flowing hair, rev. MEDICINA VETVS ET NOVA, physicians of ancient and modern times meet, 58mm. (MI.488/28; Brettauer 372; BDM V, 311, illus.), very fine
*ex Revd. William Lewis Gantz [1873-1940, of Stanstead Abbots, Herts] collection, Glendinings, 23-27 June, 1941, lot 1948, part
ex Baldwin's vault
John Freind, Fellow of the Royal Society [1712], member of Parliament for Launceston [1722]. For a short while he was imprisoned, suspected of favouring the exiled Stuarts, but on his release appointed physician to Frederick, Prince of Wales and later Queen Caroline. He was published extensively.
Estimate: 80-120 GBP
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