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Auction 37  25 Sep 2019
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Lot 344

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 170 GBP
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The Duke of Wellington (1769-1852), the Battles of Talavera and Vitoria, 1809 and 1813, copper medals (2), struck c.1820, obv. of both by A. Donadio, uniformed bust r.; rev. 1) by P. La Fitte, Victory between British Lion and French Eagle; rev. 2) by J. La Fitte, Bellona drives a biga to l., both 41mm. (BHM.673, 756; Mudie 16 & 22; Eimer, Wellington 3 & 25), the first with severe obverse die break, the second showing the beginnings of the same break, extremely fine and scarce (2)
In the cased set of Mudie's Grand National Medals, these two medals were replaced with an almost identical copy of the portrait by G. Mills.
(100-150 GBP)
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