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Argentinian Quatercentenary Medal

This silver medal was struck in Argentina to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Presented by the Comision Argentina de Homenaje a Shakespeare. This portrait of Shakespeare ...

Argentinian Quatercentenary Medal

This silver medal was struck in Argentina to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Presented by the Comision Argentina de Homenaje a Shakespeare. This side shows the Globe ...

Birmingham Shakespeare Society bronze medal

This side is struck with a figure of Shakespeare based on the Westminster Abbey statue. "A good man's memory will outlive his life" is a misquotation from Hamlet (Act III, Scene 2), substituting "good" ...

Birmingham Shakespeare Society bronze medal

A bronze medal struck for the Birmingham Shakespeare Society, 1830, by Ottley of Birmingham. The reverse bears an unattributed quotation: "THIS HUMBLE TOKEN OF THE VENERATION WE FEEL FOR HIS WORKS, ...

Bronze Shakespeare Medal

An bronze medal struck in 1821. This side features a portrait adapted from the Droeshout engraving for the 1623 First Folio. Inscription: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. BORN APRIL 23 1564. DIED APRIL 23 1616. Identity ...

Bronze Shakespeare Medal

An bronze medal struck in 1821. This side illustrates a scene from As You Like It Act II Scene 1, in which the character Jacques is seated near a stream where a deer is drinking. This image may have ...

Canadian Quatercentenary Medal

This silver medal was issued by the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada to mark the four-hundredth anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. This profile differs markedly from the conventional depictions ...

Canadian Quatercentenary Medal

This silver medal was issued by the city of Stratford, Ontario, Canada to mark the four-hundredth anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. The reverse shows the theatre at Stratford, Ontario, where ...

City of London School Medal

A silver medal awarded as a prize by the City of London School. Designed by Benjamin Wyon. This side shows a portrait of Shakespeare. Identity number SBT 1999-38/61

City of London School Medal

A silver medal awarded as a prize by the City of London School. Designed by Benjamin Wyon. This side shows a group of Shakespearian characters: Prospero and Ariel, Cardinal Wolsey, Lady Macbeth, Falstaff ...

Commemorative Medal - Celebrated Men Series

Designed in the eighteenth-century by Jean Dassier (d. 1763). This side features a representation of Shakespeare derived from the Chandos Portrait (c. 1610) attributed to John Taylor. Identity ...

Commemorative Medal - Celebrated Men Series

Designed in the eighteenth-century by Jean Dassier (d.1763). This side shows John Selden (1584-1654), scholar, historian and lawyer who became a leading figure in the Parliamentary opposition to Charles ...

Commemorative medal for the Tercentenary, 1864

A large bronze medal commemorating the 1864 Tercentenary. Designed by J (ohn) Bell, sculpted by L.C. Wyon, Hunt and Roskill dir.? Inscription. Obverse: bust of Shakespeare to left, surrounded by titles ...

Copper Trade Token

These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. ...

Copper Trade Token

These tokens were used as a form of substitute currency in the last quarter of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to insufficient availability of official copper coinage. ...

Czechoslovakian Quatercentenary Medal

This medal was struck in Czechoslovakia to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Designed by M. Knobloch. Presented by a delegate to the 11th International Shakespeare Conference ...

Czechoslovakian Quatercentenary Medal

This medal was struck in Czechoslovakia to commemorate the 400th anniversary in 1964 of Shakespeare's birth. Designed by M. Knobloch. Presented by a delegate to the 11th International Shakespeare Conference ...

Dutch Quatercentenary Medal

A bronze commemorative medal from the Netherlands for the Quatercentenary, 1964. Designed by V.S.P. Esser. This Dutch bronze medal re-interprets the Shakespeare icon, probably drawing on the Droeshout ...