The Royal Society Medal, in commemoration of Captain Cook.` Silver medal, 43 mm. diameter; relief bust of Captain Cook on recto, full-length relief portrait of Fortune leaning on a column while resting her hand upon a rudder and globe on verso; very good (“extremely fine”). London, Royal Society,, 1784. The Royal Society’s formal memorial to the great navigator.
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