Coins, Paper Money, Tokens and Historical Medals

Royal Scottish Society of Arts, a silver award medal by A. Kirkwood, bust of Minerva right, rev. wreath, named (Mr Wm. Procter, Tinsmith, Forfar, for Stop Cock and Mode of Reversing in his Oscillating Cylinder Steam Engine No. 3334, The Silver Medal Value Three Sovereigns, 1851), 48mm (D & W 182/626; Brodie 270, this piece). Obverse extremely fine and toned, reverse nearly so but with some minor rim nicks, rare £80-100

Provenance: N.G. Brodie Collection, DNW Auction 41, 3 June 1999, lot 270 [from J. Whitmore December 1993]