SELECTED TOKENS AND MEDALS FROM RECENT AUCTIONS

1966 St. Louis Science Fair Medal

A 1966 Science Fair Medal. The medal is bronze toned metal with a gold tone finish. One side depicts a winged figure standing in victorious pose and reads “St. Louis Post-Dispatch Science Fair.” The reverse side has a border of laurel leaves and reads “In Cooperation with Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1966.”

To read the complete lot description, see:
1966 Science Fair Medal (www.ebth.com/items/4845263-1966-science-fair-medal)

Samuel Prentice Token

Great Britain, Warwickshire, Birmingham, William Lutwyche (1754-c.1801, toymaker at Temple Row and, later, St Philip’s churchyard, he was responsible for coining a huge variety of trade tokens), Copper Halfpenny Trade Token, undated (c.1797), obverse: figure of Justice seated, holding a pair of scales and with shield inscribed ENGRAVING & DIE SINKING, MEDALS & PROVINCIAL COINS around, DEA PECUNIA in exergue, reverse: coining press at centre, LUTWYCHES MANUFACTORY around, BIRMINGHAM in exergue, edge PAYABLE BY SAMUEL PRENTICE, diam. 30mm (Dalton & Hamer “The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century” 219a).

To read the complete lot description, see:
Birmingham, Samuel Prentice Token, RR (www.baldwin.co.uk/tokens/birmingham-samuel-prentice-token-rr.html)

Joseph Priestley Silver Token

Great Britain, Warwickshire, Birmingham, John Gregory Hancock Senior (medalist and die-sinker; he was active in the trade from 1775 until 1815 and worked closely with Matthew Boulton at Soho and engraved dies for Peter Kempson, among others; he collaborated with John Westwood (the elder) from 1789-1792 in the production of tokens for numerous clients, and with John Stubbs Jorden in the issuance of satirical 'End of Pain' Halfpennies), Silver Penny Token or Medal, dated 1783, for the 50th Birthday of Joseph Priestly (18th Century English theologian, dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and Liberal political theorist who published over 150 works; he is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, although Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Antoine Lavoisier also have a claim to the discovery;

he strongly believed in the free and open exchange of ideas, advocated toleration and equal rights for religious Dissenters, which also led him to help found Unitarianism in England; the controversial nature of Priestley's publications combined with his outspoken support of the French Revolution aroused public and governmental suspicion - he was eventually forced to flee in 1791, first to London and then to the United States, after a mob burned down his home and church, he spent the last ten years of his life living in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania), obverse: bewigged bust of Joseph Priestley in profile to right, I. G. HANCOCK F below, JOSEPHUS PRIESTLEY around, reverse: scientific apparatus on a work-bench at centre, stove and chimney emitting smoke to right, MDCCLXXXIII in exergue, edge plain, diam. 36mm (Dalton & Hamer “The Provincial Token Coinage of the 18th Century” 33; British Historical Medals 251).

To read the complete lot description, see:
Joseph Priestley, Silver Token, 1783, RR (www.baldwin.co.uk/tokens/joseph-priestley-silver-token-1783-rr.html)

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