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Auction 31 - Argentum  1 Jun 2019
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Lot 458

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British Medals, Daniel Wray, FRS (1701-1783), English antiquarian, cast bronze medal, 1726 (when Wray was 24), by Giovanni Battista Pozzo, bust r. in high relief, rev. NIL ACTVM REPVTANS CVM QVID SVPERESSET AGENDVM, 69mm. (MI.465/78; BDM.IV, 681; Hall I, 579, Baldwin Auction 64), a rough and un-patinated cast, pierced at top, good fine, though probably much as made
Wray was in Rome in 1726, where this medal is believed to have been made – MI states that it was ;a striking representation'. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, President of the Society of Antiquaries and a Trustee of the British Museum.
(50-60 GBP)
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