British Honduras, Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, President’s Medal, a silver award by W. Wyon, bust of Prince Albert right, rev. legend around and within wreath, edge named (To Robert Temple Esqr [Chief Justice of British Honduras] for his paper on ‘British Honduras, its history, trade, and natural resources’), 56mm (Roehrs 1516, this piece; BHM 2285; E 1420). Two rim cuts on reverse and polished in the past, otherwise very fine [certified and graded by NGC as AU Details, Polished] £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Coins, Tokens and Medals of the West Indies from the Isaac Rudman Collection.

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R.J. Ford Collection, Part I, Spink Auction 79, 15 October 1990, lot 537; E. Roehrs Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1516

The paper was read to the Society in 1847.