Lot 634
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 9 carat gold ‘Albert’ prize medal.

Ancient, British & World Coins - Auction 120 | C25001
Auction: 12 March 2025 at 10:00 GMT
£4,200
Description
(56mm/129.46gm), 1861, by L. C. Wyon. Edge hallmarked and engraved 1992 LORD YOUNG OF DARTINGTON / SOCIAL SCIENTIST, INNOVATOR, CHAMPION OF THE CONSUMER AND ACCESS TO LEARNING. Bare head of Prince Albert left. Rev, female allegory of the Arts standing left, holding palette and presenting flower to Industry seated right, holding distaff; to right, Commerce (as Mercury) seated left on bale, holding winged caduceus (Eimer 1566; BHM 2795; Hocking 257/102). As Struck, superb, a couple of tiny toning spots and the faintest of hairlines in fields, in fitted Royal Mint case from the 1990s (sound).
Footnote
Lord Michael Young (1915-2002) was a British sociologist, social activist and politician. During his career, he was influential in shaping the policy and ideology of the Labour Party. Young was a leading advocate for social reform, and in that capacity he founded or helped to found a number of organisations including Which? Magazine and the Open University. Young accepted a life peerage on 20 March 1978, taking the Labour whip and the title Baron Young of Dartington.

