^Lot 1203 Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Havana, ex-Adams (plate).

Great Britain, copper alloy Admiral Vernon medal, 1739, Havana, ex-Adams (plate). AC-HAv1A; Betts-313. 14.22 grams, 38 mm. Dark but well-detailed AU-, struck on a cast flan but the portrait decidedly not "lower relief" as described in AC. XRF: 49.98% copper, 42.86% zinc, 4.10% lead, 1.33% tin. Pedigreed to the John Adams Collection (with his handwritten tag), plated on page 180 of Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon (2010), by Adams and Chao.