Lot 507
Duke and Duchess of York, Visit to the City of London, copper medal

Ancient, British and World Coins - 114 | C24002
Auction: 7 March 2024 at 10:00 GMT
£348
Description
Duke and Duchess of York, Visit to the City of London, copper medal (76mm/236.24gm) 1893 by G. G. Adams for the Corporation of the City of London. Conjoined busts left. Rev, the couple in antique biga greeted by Londonia (Eimer 1780; BHM 3452). Good Extremely Fine but cleaned in antiquity, in original leather case of issue (sound). Only 400 specimens struck.
Footnote
The couple, later to be George V and Queen Mary, had married on the 6 July 1893, in the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace and visited the City of London later the same day.

