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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon and Fort Chagre / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Ada

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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon and Fort Chagre / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Ada
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Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, Vernon and Fort Chagre / Porto Bello, 1739, ex-Adams (Plate). AC-FCv17X. 37 mm, 10.31 grams. Cast, dark and slightly encrusted AXF with bold obverse details, faint dentillation on nearly non-existent rims (AC: "no room to fit"). XRF: 87.89% copper, 7.57% zinc, 3.68% lead. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 156 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.