Watch List notes:

Great Britain, small uniface (reverse) copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal (button), (1739?), Porto Bello, extremely rare, ex-Medina (plate), ex-Ferrari, ex-Chao, ex-Adams. AC-UNI12; Betts-unl. 5.34 grams, 29 mm. Well-detailed XF, the button shank on reverse ground off, great companion-piece with the prior lot as showing a "reverse" for that lot's "obverse" design, very important pedigree going back more than 100 years, in fact Medina's discovery piece from 1919. XRF: 61.11% copper, 30.95% zinc, 6.14% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), the Fernando Chao Collection and the Jorge Ferrari Collection, and also to the J.T. Medina Collection and plated on page 76 of his Las Medallas del Almirante Vernon (1919).
($500-1000)