Presenting Her Ladyship
harasha
Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
The obverse is not true colour, but this presentation best brings out the details.
Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis
DPOTD
DPOTD
0
Comments
Virtus Collection - Renaissance and Baroque Medals
TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
My YouTube Channel
Nice coin. She looks like she has the same jaw line as honest Abe!
I would say more Eisenhower to me.
The lion and anchor signify Birmingham.
The date mark is 1896, though if it was not for the upraised curl, on the upper left, it would seem the mark for 1886.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts was one of the great philanthropists of her time. I could not find anything about the awardee, Alfred A. Mitchell and his Plumber's Work. Not much available on the Westminster Technical Institute, either. Nothing on the medallist, Owen Hale, either.
DPOTD
Pretty medal, though, despite the slightly frumpy portrait. The engraving is nice, and that contrast on the reverse is attractive.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.