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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 17, April 23, 2023, Article 29

1953 YOUNG CHARLES MEDAL GALVANO

How about this announcement about a never-produced medal of Charles from the time of his mother's coronation in 1953? -Editor

Coronation Medal of Charles – but 1953

Prince Charles 1953 Ahead of the King's Coronation on 6th May, the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum has purchased from numismatic consultant Daniel Fearon, a bronzed galvano of a medal of the King that was intended to be a speculative issue by Messrs John Pinches at the time of his mother's Coronation in 1953. The company used several portraits of the Queen on the various medals they had been commissioned to strike but, it would seem, there was little commercial interest in a medal of Prince Charles.

The sensitive and well-modelled child portrait is not signed but almost certainly the work of Leslie Ernest Pinches (1903-1980). Whilst no actual medals were struck a couple of trial pieces came on the market in 1987-88, when the Pinches Archive was sold in two auctions at Messrs. Glendining & Co.. The Museum also acquired galvanos of The Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret produced at the same time.

  Duke of Edinburgh 1953 Pincess Margaret 1953

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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