HANOVER. George II. 1727-1760. Æ Medal (52mm, 58.67 g, 12h). Cambridge University Chancellor’s Medal. By R. Yeo. Struck after 1752. GEORGIVS II PIVS FELIX PATER PATRIAE, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / STVDIIS HVMANITATIS, personification of Cambridge seated left, holding caduceus, and Liberalitas, standing left, holding prize and cornucopia; to left, three students standing right; façade of Senate House in background; to lower right, river god Cam reclining left, resting arm on overflowing urn; in exergue, LIBERALITAS T HOLLES DVC/ NOVOCASTR ACAD/ CANCELL. Eimer 637; MI 667/377. Brown surfaces with hints of red. EF.
From the Drewry Family Collection. Ex World Art Medals 10 (10 December 1984), lot 58.
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