Medal - John Locke silver

Features

Location	England (United Kingdom)
King	George II (1727-1760)
Type	Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Year	1740
Composition	Silver
Weight	35.3 g
Diameter	42 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Number	N# 578266
References	Eimer# 413 var. Christopher Eimer. British Commemorative Medals and their Values. London, United Kingdom (2 volumes). , MI II# A 72 Edward Hawkins, Augustus W. Franks, Herbert Appold Grueber; 1885. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II / Volume II. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. , Eisler# 216 William Eisler; 2005. The Dassiers of Geneva / 7, Volume I: Jean Dassier, Medal Engraver: Geneva, Paris and London, 1700-1733: 18th-Century European Medallists. Musée Monetaire Cantonal, Lausanne, Switzerland. , Storer MiN# 2246 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.

Obverse

Bust of John Locke facing 3/4 right

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IOHANNES LOCKE.
J.D.

Engraver: Jean Dassier

Reverse

Two draped figures sitting on large urn, holding hat and scales. Urn also holds a cornucopia and books. Below, a cherub reads a book, with play things around.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
M. 1704.
J.D.

Engraver: Jean Dassier

Edge

Plain

Comments

Reengraved later strike

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
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ND (1740)

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