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Winchester College silver prize medal for Latin verse and essay.
Awarded in 1807 to Robert Monsey Rolfe (1790-1868), subsequently a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, who became Lord Cranworth, Lord Chancellor (1852-8, 1865-6). This Winchester College medal is recorded in BHM as only known in gold and bronze, and as having been initiated in 1816, which this specimen shows to be wrong.
Weight: 57.32 g
Method of acquisition: Bought (1993-10-11) by Spink and Son Ltd
Production date: AD 1816
Maximum Diameter 48.4 mm
Accession number: CM.410-1993
Primary reference Number: 189462
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Coins and Medals
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