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Award - St. Bartholomew's Hospital Kirkes Medal; gold

Features

Location United Kingdom
Type Award medals › Scholastic, academic and scientific awards
Year 1864
Composition Gold
Weight 31.9 g
Diameter 46 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Number
N#
420757
References BHM# 2830
Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes).
, Pinches# p186.5
John Harvey Pinches; 1987. Medals by John Pinches: A catalogue of works struck by the company from 1840 to 1969. Heraldry Today, London, United Kingdom.
, Storer MiN# 1886
Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Commemorative issue

St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London

Obverse

Bust left

Script: Latin

Lettering:
WILLIAM SENHOUSE KIRKES M. D. DIED 1864
J.S. & A.B. WYON SC.

Engravers: Joseph Shepherd Wyon, Alfred Benjamin Wyon

Reverse

Recipient name and date engraved within wreath

Script: Latin

Lettering:
ST BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSP:
FOR CLINICAL MEDICINE

Mint

John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)

Comments

Orig. gold, now bronze-gilt. Awarded annually for first year clinical examination. (Pinches)

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1864 

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