Auction Catalogue

12 June 1991

Starting at 1:30 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 1

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12 June 1991

Hammer Price:
£95

DEFENCE OF GIBRALTAR 1783, General Picton's medal, white metal, rim engraved (Sir Thos. Picton to the Defenders of Gibraltar 1782), nearly very fine

Very few coins of Ludica are known; all the others are without a mint signature. They were struck by the moneyers Eadgar, Eadnoth and Werebald and are normally attributed to an uncertain East Anglian mint, possibly Ipswich. For a mint-signed coin of London to turn up is as unexpected as it is important, both numismatically and historically