The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Jamaica, JAMAICA, Saint George’s Agricultural and Immigration Society, 1840, Prize Medal, a silver award, unsigned, farm building showing former slave quarters, verdant hills beyond, to the fore a man ploughs, rev. his exy rt hon sir c. t. metcalfe, bt governor of jamaica, named (Awarded to Wm. Hosack Esqr For the Finest Yearling Colt Exhibited from Woodstock Estate, 1840), 61mm (cf. Roehrs 1560). Some minor discolouration, otherwise extremely fine £900-1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins.

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Provenance: Bt 1982.

Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe (1785-1846), also served as acting Governor-General of India and Governor of the province of Canada. The Honourable William Hosack (1808-91), b. Edinburgh, owned estates in Jamaica but returned to Edinburgh in 1872. His medal “For the Finest Spell of Working Cattle”, awarded the following year but otherwise identical, was sold in these rooms, 13 July 2011, lot 1560, as part of the Roehrs collection; his medal “For the Finest Stallion”, also awarded in 1840, was sold in these rooms, 2 April 2014, lot 1009, as part of the Brandon Collection. Both these medals had been acquired by their previous owners from Bob Lyall. Brandon’s index card quotes a description of the medal from the 1846 Jamaica Almanac. He also states ‘one of three similar medals, plus one in the custody of Jamaica College’