Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Oxford University, Osler Memorial Prize, 1919, a bronze award medal by F. Bowcher for Pinches, draped bust of William Osler right, rev. shield of the University, edge named (1935, Arthur Frederick Hurst, DM, FRCP, Magdalen College), 65mm (BHM 4139; MJP p.220; Storer 2662a). Extremely fine; in light blue leather case of issue (£30-40)

Sir William Osler (1849-1919), Canadian-born physician, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, 1904-19; a number of prizes were named after him including this one, only awarded once every five years. Sir Arthur Frederick Hurst (1879-1944), lecturer in medicine at Oxford, another distinguished physician and author of Hereditary familial congenital haemorrhagic nephritis occurring in sixteen individuals in three generations, relating to Alport’s syndrome. Further biographical details of Hurst, who served in the RAMC in World War I, are sold with the lot