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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Adams (Plate), ex-C

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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Adams (Plate), ex-C
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Adams (Plate), ex-Craige. AC-PBv33GG. 37 mm, 13.06 grams. Dark gray AU with stipples of silver color and traces of encrustation, sharply toothed rims, new portrait with Vernon in lower relief (and therefore smaller nose), scarce. XRF: 51.44% copper, 46.42% zinc, 1.32% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag) and the Ted Craige Collection, plated on page 72 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.