BRITISH MUSEUM. DEPARTMENT OF COINS AND MEDALS. A GUIDE TO THE EXHIBITION OF ENGLISH MEDALS. BY HERBERT A. GRUEBER, F.S.A. _SECOND EDITION._ LONDON: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. LONGMANS & CO., Paternoster Row; B. QUARITCH, 15, Piccadilly; A. ASHER & CO., 13, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, and at Berlin; KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., 57 and 59, Ludgate Hill; C. ROLLIN & FEUARDENT, 19, Bloomsbury Street, & 4, Place Louvois, Paris. 1891. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. EDITOR'S PREFACE. The medals described in this Guide have been selected for their historical interest from the larger series in the Medal Room, and are exhibited in the Cases marked E, F, G, H. The specimens in gold are represented by electrotypes, and those in lead by plaster casts, coloured so as to resemble the originals. Each medal is separately labelled and numbered, the numbers referring to the descriptions in the Guide. The Introduction gives as much information as could be admitted in the limits, and each medal is described and explained on the same principle. The metal is also stated, and the sizes in inches and tenths, with other particulars necessary for identification. The first illustrated edition of this work being exhausted, a second is now issued, with a new set of eight plates, executed by the Autotype Process from casts in plaster. REGINALD STUART POOLE. CONTENTS. PAGE EDITOR'S PREFACE iii INTRODUCTION vii HISTORICAL MEDALS:— EDWARD IV. 1 HENRY VIII. 1 EDWARD VI. 3 MARY 4 ELIZABETH 4 JAMES I. 9 CHARLES I. 14 COMMONWEALTH 28 CHARLES II. 36 JAMES II. 52 STUART FAMILY 60 TOUCH-PIECES 64 WILLIAM AND MARY 65 WILLIAM III. 84 ANNE 88 GEORGE I. 104 GEORGE II. 106 GEORGE III. 113 MILITARY AND NAVAL MEDALS 130 HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SERVICE MEDALS 139