Lot 3738

Description

Great Exhibition Prize Medal, 1851, in bronze (77mm), (BHM 2462; Eimer 1456), obverse by W.Wyon, conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert left, trident at side and dolphins below, reverse by Leonard C.Wyon, Britannia seated confers a wreath upon the head of Industria, kneeling, Africa, America and Europe in attendance, to right a bust of Flaxman on a socle, struck by Royal Mint, edge inscribed, 'Prize Medal Of The Exhibition Presented to W.D.Haggard by Leonard C.Wyon'. A few small edge nicks and some small digs in reverse exergue, otherwise nearly uncirculated and scarce.