Medals ami coins represent much more than the. weight of gold or silver in them, is they become older and rarer A lew weeks ago a gold medal awarded ibr tbe Battle of Culloden on April 16, 1746, _ was sold in a London saleroom for £loo. At. Christie’s saleroom £4OO was paid for. a gold medal awarded by George II to Captain Collis for courageous service in olockading the port of St. Tropez, in which were nvo Spanish galleys. At a sale of Greek coma one example realised £640, at least a thousand times its face value. Another yielded £430, and a rare lotnadraclim. an ancient silver coin, which had previously brought £55, was sold for £328.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 10
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176Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19249, 13 August 1924, Page 10
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