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Medal Joseph Priestley; bronze

Features

Location United Kingdom
King George III (1760-1820)
Type Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year 1783
Composition Bronze
Diameter 40 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
405568
References BHM# 251
Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes).
, Eimer# 807
Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes).
, DH# 32-33
Richard Dalton, Samuel H. Hamer; 1918. The Provincial Token-Coinage of the 18th Century. Davisson's Ltd., London, United Kingdom.

Commemorative issue

50th Birthday of Joseph Priestley

Obverse

Bust right

Script: Latin

Lettering: JOSEPHUS PRIESTLEY.

Engraver: John Gregory Hancock

Reverse

Scientific apparatus on a bench, chimney with smoke at left

Script: Latin

Lettering: MDCCLXXXIII

Engraver: John Gregory Hancock

Comments

Smoke at left

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1783  DH# 32 (smoke at left)
1783  DH# 33 (smoke at right)

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