Watch List notes:

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Pondicherry Taken, AR Medal, 1761, by Thomas Pingo, GEORGE • THE • THIRD, laureate head right, within beaded circle, rev. TOTAL • EXPVLSION • OF • THE • FRENCH • FROM • INDIA, Victory inscribing a shield COOTE STEEVENS, standing right, between palms, rudders, and the split urns of the INDVS and GANGES rivers, PONDICHERRY TAKEN MDCCLXI, 39mm, 27.09g (Eimer 686; BHM 72), die flaw to obverse legend at 8 o'clock and to reverse legend at 9 and 4 o'clock, otherwise a unusual portrait of George III, darkly toned and residually lustrous, a pleasing extremely fine, rare

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

SNC, November 1965, no. 6614 - EF - £3.10.0