Watch List notes:

Medals by Subject, Art: Victoria, The Art Union of London, Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), copper medal, 1845, by A. J. Stothard, bust l., palette below truncation, rev. "Infant Hercules strangling Serpents", 58.5mm (BHM 2207; Eimer 1399; Beaulah [BNJ 1967] 2), extremely fine
The painting represented on the reverse was commissioned by Catherine II, the Great, of Russia in 1785 and it 'entered' the Hermitage in 1789.
(70-90 GBP)