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Auction 251 8-9 Mar 2022
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World Historical Medals from Various Properties
EGYPT, The Overland Route to India Protected, 1840, a copper medal by A.J. Stothard, bust of Mehmet 'Ali Pasha facing three-quarters left, wearing full beard and fez, rev. from the committee, the friend of science commerce & order who protected the subjects and property of adverse powers and kept open the overland route to india, 1840, 58mm (BHM –; Pudd. 842.2; Dogan 6504; BDM V, 696). Extremely fine and patinated, very rare £600-£800
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Mehmet Ali Pasha, Albanian commander and administrator in the Ottoman army, Governor of Misr (Cairo), elected 1805, Sudan (which he conquered 1822-3), Filistin, Suriye, Hicaz, Mora, Tasoz and Girit. Later he occupied Syria, 1831-40. He is regarded by some as the founder of modern Egypt and facilitated the overland mail route for Britain, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
EGYPT, The Overland Route to India Protected, 1840, a copper medal by A.J. Stothard, bust of Mehmet 'Ali Pasha facing three-quarters left, wearing full beard and fez, rev. from the committee, the friend of science commerce & order who protected the subjects and property of adverse powers and kept open the overland route to india, 1840, 58mm (BHM –; Pudd. 842.2; Dogan 6504; BDM V, 696). Extremely fine and patinated, very rare £600-£800
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Mehmet Ali Pasha, Albanian commander and administrator in the Ottoman army, Governor of Misr (Cairo), elected 1805, Sudan (which he conquered 1822-3), Filistin, Suriye, Hicaz, Mora, Tasoz and Girit. Later he occupied Syria, 1831-40. He is regarded by some as the founder of modern Egypt and facilitated the overland mail route for Britain, between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea