British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts CORNWALL, Helston, Death of Sir Isaac Newton, 1727, a silver medal by J. Croker, draped bust left, rev. Science holding a plan of the solar system, edge impressed prize medal for helston school 1785, 52mm, 57.06g (D & W 233/243, this piece; MI II, 469/83; E 504). Brilliant mint state, attractively toned, extremely rare as a prize medal £400-500 Footnote Helston Grammar School, the ‘Eton of Cornwall’ would later have Derwent Coleridge (son of the poet) as Head Master and the author Charles Kingsley was a pupil. It seems odd that the school would take such an effort in engraving a rare medal without naming the recipient
British Educational Award Medals from the Collection formed by the late T.H. Watts CORNWALL, Helston, Death of Sir Isaac Newton, 1727, a silver medal by J. Croker, draped bust left, rev. Science holding a plan of the solar system, edge impressed prize medal for helston school 1785, 52mm, 57.06g (D & W 233/243, this piece; MI II, 469/83; E 504). Brilliant mint state, attractively toned, extremely rare as a prize medal £400-500 Footnote Helston Grammar School, the ‘Eton of Cornwall’ would later have Derwent Coleridge (son of the poet) as Head Master and the author Charles Kingsley was a pupil. It seems odd that the school would take such an effort in engraving a rare medal without naming the recipient
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