Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown / Porto Bello, ex-Adams (plate), ex-Craige. AC-PBvb11S. 15.66 grams; 38 mm. Sharply detailed AU-, with nicely contrasting fields in olive green color, faint die-crack at top of obverse. XRF: 40.67% copper, 50.65% zinc, 4.93% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and to the Ted Craige Collection, plated on page 124 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.
Estimate: $500 - $1000