Watch List notes:

BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. A Presentation Gold Medal from the Prince of Wales (later George III) to his doctor. George, Prince of Wales, attains his Majority, Gold Medal, 1759, by Thomas Pingo, laureate and armoured bust left, GEORGIVS WALLIAE PRINCEPS, rev Tellus seated at right, wearing mural crown, lions and shield at her side, watching four females dancing around an oak-tree, TELLVS JACTABIT ALVMNO, ROBVR BRITANNIAE on ribband and ADVLTÆ ÆTATIS DIES FAVSTISSIMVS IV JVN MDCCLIX in exergue, 94.09g, 55mm, in original velvet-lined red leather case of issue (lacks one clasp and hook) (MI 698/428; Eimer, Pingo 13, a single gold specimen noted, this in the British Museum; Eimer 666). Extremely fine, pierced for suspension and the slightest of edge bruises at 10 o'clock, believed to be only the second know specimen in gold, extremely rare.
Within the case are two labels, in the base in a neat hand, "Donum hoc perhonorifum ab ipsa manu Serenissimi Princeps Walliae acceptum XIV Jun MDCCLX sumino semper in prelio (or pretio) habit Vir Celeberrimus DAVID MIDDLETON Exercilius Britannici Archi Chirurgusa" and in the lid the weight, in ounces, pennyweight and grains "3 : 0 : 14", with below, "Ex dono P: Walliæ / XIV Jun: 1760".
David Middleton (1703-1785), Surgeon-General to the army and senior surgeon at St George's Hospital, London.His portrait, after Thomas Gainsborough, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside.Tellus [Mater] – the Roman Godess of Mother Earth
ex Sothebys, 9 March 1989, lot 238 (withdrawn)

Estimate: £8000-10,000