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Auction 17 - Argentum  2 Jun 2018
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Lot 459

Estimate: 80 GBP
Price realized: 70 GBP
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British Commemorative Medals, Samuel Clarke (1675-1729), mathematician and philosopher, Death, copper medal, 1729, by Jean Dassier, bust three-quarters r., rev. student ascends path to Truth on mountain summit, 42.5mm (MI 490/31; Eimer 518; Eisler 10); William Windham (1716-1761), copper medal, 1742, by J. A. Dassier, bust r., rev. within cartouche, OFFICII ET AUGURII ..., 41mm (MI 570/205; Eimer 571; Eisler 15-16), good very fine (2)
*ex Baldwin's vault
Windam was a member of the select society of Englishmen living in Geneva which is where, it would seem, he met Dassier, though it is not known what merited the dedication on the reverse.
(80-120 GBP)
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