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World Coin Auction 3  –  17 December 2024

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World Coins

Tu, 17.12.2024, from 1:00 PM CET
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Description

GREAT BRITAIN.
Pewter Medal, 1795.
By Whitley, condemning the French revolution.
Obv.: • A PHILOSOPHICAL CURE FOR ALL EVILS • LICENTIOUS LIBERTY IS DESTRUCTION • A standing decapitated French aristocrat, behind him a little devil, both in a circle of severed heads.
Rev.: THE LAND WE LIVE IN AND MAY THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE IT LEAVE IT. Domestic scene in England: The man has put the spade aside, is drinking a beer and playing with the children while the woman sits at the spinning wheel and watches, GOD SAVE THE KING and Crown above.
Extremely fine.

M&M Auction 24 (2007), lot 747.

Reference: Brown 407
Diameter: 48 mm.
Weight: 52.1 g.
Composition: Pewter.

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Price realized 410 GBP
Starting price 200 GBP
Estimate 400 GBP
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