HANOVER. Sir William Browne, President of the Royal College of Physicians. 1692-1774. AV Medal (35mm, 24.00 g, 10h). Cambridge University – William Browne Prize for Classical Odes and Epigrams. By L. Pingo. Dated 3 January 1692 and 1765. Presented to John

Triton XXIX
Lot: 1141. Estimated: $ 3 000

British Medals, Gold

Sold For $ 4 750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

HANOVER. Sir William Browne, President of the Royal College of Physicians. 1692-1774. AV Medal (35mm, 24.00 g, 10h). Cambridge University – William Browne Prize for Classical Odes and Epigrams. By L. Pingo. Dated 3 January 1692 and 1765. Presented to John Fraser, 1904. ESSE ET VIDERI, bust left; below, D · GVLIELMVS BROWNE · EQVES ·/ NAT III NON · IAN · A · I · MDCXCII / SVNT SVA PRAEMA LAVDI, student kneeling left, presenting scrolls to Apollo, seated left, resting hand on lyre and crowning the student with wreath; in exergue, ELECTVS COLL · MED/ LOND · PRAESES A · S/ MDCCLXV. Edge: JOHN FRASER 1904. Eimer, Pingo 52; BHM 92; Eimer 711. In PCGS encapsulation 50811011, graded SP 62.

Ex Stack’s Bowers Galleries (12 August 2024), lot 40212; Baldwin’s 101 (28 September 2016), lot 3653.

The William Browne Prize for Classical Odes and Epigrams was established in the will of Sir William Browne, President of the Royal College of Physicians, upon his death in 1774. Medals of five-guinea weight were to be distributed to Cambridge undergraduates, with the first awarded in 1775. This particular example was awarded to John Fraser, then a student at Trinity College. Fraser would go on to become one of Britain’s greatest linguists, lecturing in Celtic at Aberdeen University and ultimately serving as the Jesus Professor of Celtic at Jesus College, Oxford. His linguistic accomplishments would even leading him to be tapped to join the elite group of codebreakers who deciphered the German Enigma cypher at Bletchley Park.

The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.

Triton XXIX – Session Four – Lot 920-1141 will be held Wednesday afternoon, 14 January 2026 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.