Australian Historical Medals
Lot 1015 Session 4 (4.30pm Tuesday) Australian Historical Medals
Estimate $12,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $12,000
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, death of Cook 1779, "Courage and Perseverance" in bronze (37mm) in exergue "Born 1728 Died 1779" (BHM 218; MH 375; Eimer 778). The reverse die identicle with the examples in sales 24 (lot 988) and 90 (lot 619) but differs from the Chapman example in sale 88B (lot 671) in floral ornament above. Traces of diagonal edge graining, old scratch behind head and has been brushed to clean otherwise attractive brown patina, good very fine and very rare.
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Lot 1013
GEORGE III, Resolution and Adventure Medal (1772), Captain James Cook, uniface casting of the obverse ...
Estimate $600
Lot 1014
DANIEL SOLANDER, 1778, in silver (37 mm) by Gustave Ljunberger (Sweden) (BHM 252; Eimer 798). ...
Estimate $5,000
Lot 1015 This lot
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK, death of Cook 1779, "Courage and Perseverance" in bronze (37mm) in ...
Estimate $12,500
Lot 1016
THE COPLEY MEDAL, in copper (43mm). Some mint red, toned, good extremely fine and rare. ...
Estimate $600
Lot 1017
LLOYDS PATRIOTIC FUND SWORD, and other items awarded to Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell. First: Lloyds Patriotic ...
Estimate $350,000