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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown / Porto Bello, ex-Adams.

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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown / Porto Bello, ex-Adams.
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Vernon and Brown / Porto Bello, ex-Adams. AC-PBvb1A; Betts-unl. 12.95 grams, 38 mm. Dark Fine with decent contrast from toning around details, notably missing the ornamentation in exergue and obverse legend-enclosure required for dies 3E (and in fact scarcer than that combination), the photo for which in AC appears to be dies 1A also. XRF: 45.62% copper, 45.66% zinc, 6.30% lead, 1.56% tin. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag, erroneously attributed to PBvb3E).