Lot 442
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Admiral Anson's circumnavigation of the globe, 1740-44 and the Defeat of the French Fleet off Cape Finisterre, 1747, gold, 43 mm., wt. 42.7 g., by Thomas Pingo, bust of Anson left being crowned by Victory, rev. Victory holding a wreath and trophy standing on the back of a sea monster within beaded circle, the names of Anson's captains in wreath around (MI ii,634/325; vide Captain Philip Saumarez and the Voyage of the"Centurion", Ann Pemberton, SCMB, Feb.-April 1977, pp.44-46; 93-97; 136-139), extremely fine, rare
GOLD COMMEMORATIVE AND PRIZE MEDALS
Admiral Anson's circumnavigation of the globe, 1740-44 and the Defeat of the French Fleet off Cape Finisterre, 1747, gold, 43 mm., wt. 42.7 g., by Thomas Pingo, bust of Anson left being crowned by Victory, rev. Victory holding a wreath and trophy standing on the back of a sea monster within beaded circle, the names of Anson's captains in wreath around (MI ii,634/325; vide Captain Philip Saumarez and the Voyage of the"Centurion", Ann Pemberton, SCMB, Feb.-April 1977, pp.44-46; 93-97; 136-139), extremely fine, rare

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Admiral Anson's circumnavigation of the globe, 1740-44 and the Defeat of the French Fleet off Cape Finisterre, 1747, gold, 43 mm., wt. 42.7 g., by Thomas Pingo, bust of Anson left being crowned by Victory, rev. Victory holding a wreath and trophy standing on the back of a sea monster within beaded circle, the names of Anson's captains in wreath around (MI ii,634/325; vide Captain Philip Saumarez and the Voyage of the"Centurion", Ann Pemberton, SCMB, Feb.-April 1977, pp.44-46; 93-97; 136-139), extremely fine, rare