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Auction 58 30 Mar 2022
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A History of the English Speaking Peoples, an incomplete set of 30 silver medals (from a set of 50), c. 1971-1973, by Stuart Devlin, for the Danbury Mint, each with a pictorial obverse and armorial or similar reverse, in folder of issue, this much damaged with several pages now stuck together, each 45mm., Birmingham Hallmarks [1973 a special mark used to commemorate the bicentenary of the Assay Office], maker's mark of the Mint, Birmingham, Ltd., each medal mint state or virtually so (30)
The medals included in the set are: Julius Caesar; Boadicea; Picts and Scots; First Viking Raid; Battle of Hastings; Domesday Book; Richard I and Crusades; Magna Carta; First Prince of Wales; Battle of Agincourt; Wars of the Roses; Battle of Bosworth; Henry VIII; Spanish Armada; James I and VI; The Mayflower; Charles II, Coronation; Fire of London, 1666; Duke of Marlborough; Robert Walpole; Wolfe at Quebec; Cook's Voyages; American Independence; Battle of Trafalgar; Wellington and Blucher; William Cobbet; Crimean War; Gladstone and Disraeli; Victoria, Empress of India and Winston Churchill, Second Word War.
The medals included in the set are: Julius Caesar; Boadicea; Picts and Scots; First Viking Raid; Battle of Hastings; Domesday Book; Richard I and Crusades; Magna Carta; First Prince of Wales; Battle of Agincourt; Wars of the Roses; Battle of Bosworth; Henry VIII; Spanish Armada; James I and VI; The Mayflower; Charles II, Coronation; Fire of London, 1666; Duke of Marlborough; Robert Walpole; Wolfe at Quebec; Cook's Voyages; American Independence; Battle of Trafalgar; Wellington and Blucher; William Cobbet; Crimean War; Gladstone and Disraeli; Victoria, Empress of India and Winston Churchill, Second Word War.