Lot Archive

Lot

№ 888

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11 December 2002

Hammer Price:
£30

Great Britain, Francis Willis, 1789, a white metal medal by C. James, 33mm (BHM 333; E 828; DH Middlesex 220; Storer 3790); Albert Coffin, a bronze medal by J. Taylor, 49mm (BHM 2347; E 1430) [2]. Very fine and fine, last rare (£40-60)

Francis WIllis (1718-1807), physician and clergyman,attended George III for his first attack of madness. Albert Isaiah Coffin (†1866), medical botanist