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30 May 2012

Hammer Price:
£50

Bicentenary of the University of Havana, 1928, a silver-gilt shaped-shield badge, below crown, arms and façade, rev. legend, 66 x 44mm. The gilding light in colour, almost extremely fine £80-100

Provenance: Bt I. Rudman April 1999.

Originally named the Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana and established in
San Juan de Letrán, in Villa de San Cristóbal, Old Havana, the university moved to its present site in 1902