British Historical Medals from the Collection of Michael Longfield
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Lot 2692
Date of Auction: 12th December 2016
Sold for £400
Estimate: £150 - £200
Visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to the City of London, 1891, a bronze medal by Elkington & Co for the Corporation of the City of London, conjoined busts of Wilhelm and Princess Augusta right, rev. Londinia indicating shipping on the Thames to a figure of Prussia, St Paul’s behind, 80mm (W & E 1668.1; BHM 3412; E 1768). About as struck; in contemporary round case £150-200