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Award - Cheselden Medal silver

Features

Location United Kingdom
King George IV (1820-1830)
Type Award medals › Scholastic, academic and scientific awards
Year 1829
Composition Silver
Diameter 74 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
420598
References BHM# 1339
Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes).
, Eimer# 638
Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes).
, Pinches# p189.4
John Harvey Pinches; 1987. Medals by John Pinches: A catalogue of works struck by the company from 1840 to 1969. Heraldry Today, London, United Kingdom.
, Storer MiN# 618
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.

Commemorative issue

St Thomas’s Hospital, London

Obverse

Bust right

Script: Latin

Lettering: CHESELDEN

Engraver: William Wyon

Reverse

Naked male draped on operating table, book, skull, fibula, bell jars and Hospital Coat of Arms in background

Script: Latin

Lettering:
MORS VIVIS SALVS
ST THOMAS'S HOSPITAL

Mints

John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)
Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom (1810-1975)

Comments

Presumably first struck by Royal Mint, and later by John Pinches Ltd.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1829) 

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