Royal Humane Society, large silver medal by Pingo, reverse inscribed, ‘Do. Penn. vitam ob restitvtam 1798’, unmounted, test mark to obverse rim, good very fine £200-£240

Dix Noonan Webb, July 2001.

The Annual Report of the Royal Humane Society for 1798 records that Mr. Penn, Medical Assistant, was awarded this medal for having taken W. Duncan, who is described as being ‘insensible’, out of the river.