Great Britain - Historical Medals
Lot 2149 Session 8 (9:30am Wednesday 27th July) Great Britain - Historical Medals
Estimate $400
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MAYOR OF PLYMOUTH PRESENTATION MEDAL, 1803, in gilt silver (53mm), obv. Arms within wreath, USURPATIONE DEPRESSI LEGIBUS RESTITUTI 17 MARCH 1803, rev. legend in 15 lines, 'the freemen of Plymouth request your wearing this medal to be returned at the expiration of your mayoralty in honorable token of that inestimable branch of the British constitution trial by jury by whose verdict their right to elect a chief magistrate for the borough was restored after having been unjustly witheld for upwards of three centuries', not in BHM, in original red leather case. Extremely fine and very rare.
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