Medals - Great Britain

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Verses on the coronation of their late Majesties King George II and Queen Caroline, October 11, MDCCXXVII. Spoken by the Scholars of Westminster School, (some of them Now the Ornaments of the Nation) on January 15, following, being the Day of the Inauguration of Queen Elizabeth, their Foundress. With a Translation of all the Latin Copies, The Whole placed in the Order of the Transactions of that important Day. Adorned with the Coronation Medals of the Royal Pair, and a Bust of our Present King. To which is subjoined the Ceremonial of the August Procession, very proper to be compared with the approaching one; and a Catalogue of the Coronation Medals of the Kings and Queens of England.
Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]
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An abridgement of The history of England Being a summary of Mr. Rapin's History and Mr. Tindal's continuation, From the Landing of Julius Caesar, to the Death of King George I. With The Characters of the Kings at large, the State of the Public Revenues, Exchequer, and Coins, at and after the Conquest; and also lists of the Peers created in each Reign, Knights of the Garter and Bath, Baronets, Bishops, Chancellors, Chief-Justices, Judges, and Admirals, to the Present Times. Illustrated With the heads and monuments of the Kings, Queens, &c. On Seventy copper plates.
Rapin de Thoyras, M. (Paul), 1661-1725.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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A catalogue of the genuine and entire collection of Greek and Roman medals and medalions , in gold, silver, and brass, of the learned Dr. Kennedy, deceas'd Which (by Order of the Executors) Will be sold by auction, By Mr. Prestage, At his Great Room the End of Savile-Row, next Conduit-Street, Hanover-Square, On Thursday and Friday, the 8th and 9th of May, 1760. The said Collection may be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday the 6th and 7th, and to the Time of Sale, which will begin each Day exactly at Twelve O'Clock. Catalogues may be had at Mr. Prestage's aforesaid. N. B. Amongst this Collection there is the Twelve Cesars in Gold, in fine Preservation, and a Collection of 256 Medals of the Emperor Carausius, nine of them are fine Silver and extreme rare, and also eighty-nine Medals of the Emperor Alectus in Brass, all of different Reverses and Types, and many of them extreme rare. Conditions of Sale as usual.
Prestage, John, d. 1767.Date: 1760]
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The medallic history of England to the revolution. With forty plates.
Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.Date: M.DCC.XC. [1790]
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Medals, coins, great-seals, impressions, from the elaborate works of Thomas Simon , chief Engraver of the Mint. to K. Charles the Ist to the Common Wealth, the Lord Protector Cromwell and in the Reign of K. Charles ye IIst to MDCLXV. by Geo: Vertue.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756.Date: 1753