424, Lot: 653. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREAT BRITAIN, Hanover. George III. 1760-1820. Æ Medal (48mm, 39.17 g, 12h). Award Medal of the Surgeon’s Company (later The Royal College of Surgeons). By Thomas Pingo. Dated 1767 (in Roman numerals). QVÆ PROSVNT OMNIBVS ARTES, company coat-of-arms / The classical physician Galen standing right, looking at a skeleton lying left on rock outcropping inscribed T · PINGO · F; rocky landscape in background; exergue blank. Eimer, Pingo 41; BHM 110. EF, brown surfaces, a few light marks.

Purchased from Michael Agathe, 8 October 2011.