Reference:4284 Opening of the Coal Exchange in London, 1849

Bust of Queen Victoria in the centre, surrounded by those of Prince Albert, above, and Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, to left, and Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, to right. /

A detailed view of the interior of the Coal Exchange in London.

By Benjamin Wyon.

Bronze. 89 mm. (3.6 inches) in diameter.

Condition: Good extremely fine and a particularly nice example.

Notes:

Perhaps the finest British architectural medal of the nineteenth century, its magnificent three-dimensional interior view of the Coal Exhcnage records a building in the heart of the City of London and one that was still standing in the early 1960s.

From the City of London series of medals, issued by the Corporation of London in 1849. With a gauge of 11.50 mm. and a weight of over 360 grammes (12 ounces), it was the largest medal to have been struck in Britain.