Watch List notes:

Great Britain, small copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, (1739), Convention of Pardo, rare, ex-Adams (plate). AC-UNI22. 10.74 grams; 31 mm. Dark but sharply detailed AU made in the "Vernon medal" style and related by theme, as it represents the payment of 95,000 pounds sterling from Spain to Britain as a form of indemnity for stopping and searching British merchant ships, perceived as a promise to cease such activity, the resumption of which ushered in the exploits of Admiral Vernon in the Caribbean. XRF: 39.63% copper, 53.35% zinc, 5.02% lead, 1.34% tin. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 197 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao and to the Stack's auction of January 1998, with original lot-tag 36.


Estimate: 500 - 1000 USD