Baldwin & Sons
Auction 107 5 Oct 2022
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Warwick, The Greatheed Petition to Dismiss the King's Ministers, white-metal Penny/Medalet, three
men in donkey drawn cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. 8-line legend,
37mm/25.86gm. (DH 9; BHM 444), almost Extremely Fine, some oxidisation, extremely rare.
Ex. Simon Monks, Jun. 2019.
Bertie Greatheed (1759‑1826), dramatist, admirer of the French Revolution, opponent of the Pitt administration and Sheriff of Warwickshire introduced a petition to have the King dismiss his ministers during a meeting held at the Racecourse in Birmingham in May of 1797. The three people in the cart are Dr Samuel Parr, curate of Hatton, the Revd J H Williams, vicar of Wellesbourne, and Bertie Greatheed. On 19 June 1797 the Aris's Gazette published a notice that "A medal is this day published, representing the Right Heads (on the right as sober and reasonable citizens), Wrong Heads, (on the left, presumably radicals, armed with clubs and axes) and the Great Heads, (petioner) as exhibited at the Meeting at Warwick, on May 31 and may be had struck in Silver, Copper and Tin (made by Westwood) at No. 20, Gt. Charles St. Birmingham.
men in donkey drawn cart exhorting the crowds on either side, gallows above, rev. 8-line legend,
37mm/25.86gm. (DH 9; BHM 444), almost Extremely Fine, some oxidisation, extremely rare.
Ex. Simon Monks, Jun. 2019.
Bertie Greatheed (1759‑1826), dramatist, admirer of the French Revolution, opponent of the Pitt administration and Sheriff of Warwickshire introduced a petition to have the King dismiss his ministers during a meeting held at the Racecourse in Birmingham in May of 1797. The three people in the cart are Dr Samuel Parr, curate of Hatton, the Revd J H Williams, vicar of Wellesbourne, and Bertie Greatheed. On 19 June 1797 the Aris's Gazette published a notice that "A medal is this day published, representing the Right Heads (on the right as sober and reasonable citizens), Wrong Heads, (on the left, presumably radicals, armed with clubs and axes) and the Great Heads, (petioner) as exhibited at the Meeting at Warwick, on May 31 and may be had struck in Silver, Copper and Tin (made by Westwood) at No. 20, Gt. Charles St. Birmingham.