HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale

Great Britain: Nathan Mayer Rothschild death memorial medal in bronze; by Joseph Moore (not marked); size: 61mm; weight: 101.4g. Obverse: 3-lined Latin legend based on Rothschild's initials, "Nummis Maximus Reperitur." ['the greatest is found in coins']; date of death in Roman numerals below, on 2 lines "OB JUL. XXVIII MDCCCXXXVI" [obiit - he died] July 28 1836. Reverse: right-facing Rothschild with name above, "Pub. by Hyam Hyams" below. Medal designed by Joseph Moore (Forrer vol. IV p. 140), and commissioned by Hyam Hyams, a Jewish London goldsmith, watch and clock maker, and money changer upon Rothschild's death. Nathan Rothschild (1777-1836) is credited as the financial genius of the Rothschild family: he founded the British branch of the family's bank (N. M. Rothschild and Sons) and financed the Duke of Wellington's campaign against Napoleon; GJPM-88 & JMM-66-67.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $599. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: United Kingdomian,British Exonumia, Medals, Medallions & Tokens, Jewish Personalities and Judaic Tokens & Medals from United Kingdom and from 19th Century, Victorian Britain which are Object Related Specifically to a Personality or Key Event