medal
- Museum number
- M.4778
- Description
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Silver medal. (whole)
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Shield dividing two insects and legend. (obverse)
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Funerary urn on an inscribed plinth. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1770
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 34.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Brown 1980 states:
The arms on the reverse of the medal are of Bell of Wickford, Essex. See 'Essex Review', 1908, pp. 15ff. The specimen of the medal in the British Museum was presented by Jacob Bell, 11th September 1772.
Bibliography: Grueber, H. A., English Personal Medals for 1760, 'Numismatic Chronicle', third series vol. VIII 1888/59.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Death of John Bell, 1770
- Acquisition date
- 1772
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.4778
- C&M catalogue number
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MB3 (Brown 1) (32) (143)