Watch List notes:

Great Britain, silver-plated copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1741, Vernon / Cartagena, ex-Adams (plate), ex-Ford, ex-Craige. AC-CAv6G. 12.72 grams; 38 mm. Razor sharp details in UNC grade with much luster on the intact silver plating, very pretty and well pedigreed (oddly listed as "very rare" in Ford without explanation, in contrast to Adams-Chao that says "perhaps the most common of the Vernon medals"). XRF: 9.00% silver, 35.86% copper, 50.07% zinc, 4.30% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 166 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao, and to the John J. Ford, Jr. Collection (Stack's auction of January 2006, with original lot-tag 566), also to the Ted Craige Collection.


Estimate: 500 - 1000 USD