Watch List notes:

Great Britain, silver Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon / Porto Bello, rare, ex-Adams (plate), ex-Craige. AC-PBv45PP. 17.15 grams; 38 mm. Very sharply struck AU with bold contrast from dark toning, cast flan with blatantly chased fields, partially erased T at beginning of reverse legend to correct a spelling error in the die (changing THE to HE), an aspect Adams-Chao says "occurs also on the only other silver specimen examined." XRF: 96.43% silver, 2.36% tin. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 81 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao, and to the Ted Craige Collection.


Estimate: 1000 - 2000 USD