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Auction 90  24 September 2014
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Lot 1852

Estimate: 120 GBP
Price realized: 90 GBP
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS, Medals by Benetto Pistrucci (1783-1855), Royal Humane Society, instituted 1774, Copper Medal, c.1826, by Benedetto Pistrucci, signed within exergue, an unissued specimen, cherub protects the flame of life, LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN, rev oak wreath, legend around, HOC PRETIVM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT, 51mm (Stef pl.28; M pl.21; MYB L1). Extremely fine.
Pistrucci was commissioned to make the obverse die when the originals, by Lewis Pingo, were replaced in about 1826

Estimate: £120-150
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