Commemorative, Historical and Art Medals

Yorkshire Numismatic Society, 21st Anniversary, 1930, a bronze medal, unsigned [by T. Sheppard for J.A. Restall], cruciform shields, rev. legend in trilobe, 45mm; Yorkshire Numismatic Society, National Numismatic Congress, Bradford, 1951, medals after T. Sheppard for Fattorini (2), in silver and bronze, both 45mm, former hallmarked Birmingham 1951; Yorkshire Numismatic Society Silver Medal, a silver award by H. Speight for Spink, named (1967, Awarded to T.E. Morgan for services to the society), hallmarked London 1967, 45mm; Yorkshire Numismatic Society, a white metal award medal, unsigned, named (Mr T.E. Morgan, President, 1967), 32mm; Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Diamond Jubilee, 1969, silver medals by H. Speight for Vaughton (3), all hallmarked Birmingham 1969, all 45mm; Yorkshire Numismatic Society, 80th Anniversary, 1989, a silver medal by the Royal Mint, hallmarked Birmingham 1990, 45mm [9]. Extremely fine and better; all but first and fifth in cases of issue £150-200

1951 silver medal only illustrated. Trevor Emrys Morgan (1891-1973), of Southowram, Halifax, was a career journalist and former deputy editor of the Halifax Courier, from which he retired in 1959. A past president of the Huddersfield NS, he was elected a member of the Yorkshire NS in November 1957, serving as secretary from 1964-7 and as president in 1967; he was presented with his Silver Medal on 2 March 1968. Of the 1969 silver medals 55 were struck