Medal Christopher Wren; bronze
Features
| Location |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Commemorative medals › Personality medals |
| Year | 1846 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Diameter | 58 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Number | N# 413142 |
| References | BHM# 2232 Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). Jeremy Reginald Buckley Taylor; 1978. The Architectural Medal: England in the Nineteenth Century. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |
Series: Art Union of London
Obverse
Bust right
Script: Latin
Lettering: WREN
Engraver: Benjamin Wyon
Reverse
Façade of St Paul's Cathedral
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SI MONTTMENTUM REQUIRIS CIRCUMSPICE.
CHRISTOPHER WREN ARCHITECT MDCCX.
Engraver: Benjamin Wyon
Mint
Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975)Comments
Beaulah: The reverse subject, St. Paul's Cathedral, was considered at the time to be 'one of the most successful medallic representations of a building ever executed'.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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