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Auction 191  4-5 May 2021
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Lot 997

Estimate: 100 GBP
Price realized: 160 GBP
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Numismatic Medals from the North Yorkshire Moors Collection

Death of John Conduitt, 1737, a copper medal by J.S. Tanner after H.F. Gravelot, bust right, rev. figure of Truth introducing Conduitt to John Hampden and Isaac Newton, 58mm (MI II, 518/73; E 538). Very fine £100-£150

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John Conduitt (1688-1737), Hampshire landowner; Whig MP for Whitchurch, 1721-35, and Southampton, 1735-7; Master of the Mint 1727-37, succeeding his uncle by marriage, Isaac Newton, in the post. He died on 23 May 1737 and is buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton
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