Educational Prize Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Roberts

Local, LONDON, City of London School, J.T. Conquest Prize, 1838, a silver gilt award by B. Wyon, frontal elevation of the school, rev. named (Jacobo Smith Reid, Studiis Feliciter Inceptis Praemium Datum Est MDCCCLXIV) 58mm, 35.85g (cf. BHM 1680; cf. E 1279; cf. Taylor 120a). Extremely fine and apparently very rare with this reverse £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Educational Prize Medals from the Collection of the late Mike Roberts.

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James Smith Reid, FBA (1846–1926) was an English author, scholar and historian. Educated at the City of London School, which was then in Milk Street, Cheapside, he was appointed the first Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, serving from 1899 to 1925. He was author of numerous articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) and a great number of Latin textbooks. He also translated Cicero's Academica.