Lot 1762

Sale 120 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals

Death of Joseph Priestley, 1804, in white metal (56mm), by Halliday, bust facing left, obverse, extensive legend, reverse, (BHM 563). Good very fine.

Joseph Priestley, nonconformist theologian and chemist, most famous as the discoverer of oxygen.