285, Lot: 530. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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temp. HANOVER. Lieutenant-general Sir John Moore. 1761-1809. Æ Medal (41mm, 37.95 g, 12h). Mudie’s National Medals Series: The Death of Sir John Moore. By G. Mills & J. A. Couriguer. Dated 1809
in Roman numerals [though issued 1820]. LIEUT. GENERAL SIR J. MOORE K. B., bare head left / DEATH OF SIR JOHN MOORE, a British soldier
in Roman attire standing right, defending the fallen body of Moore from the French eagle attacking from right; in two lines in exergue, CORUNNA 16 JANUARY/1809. BHM 666; Eimer 994; Mudie 14. EF, a few marks.