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Today, our featured item on our online shop is this exquisite 1821 George IV Coronation Medal by Italian gem-engraver, medallist and coin engraver, Benedetto Pistrucci (1783-1855). This bronze medal is in better than very fine example with some very minor rim nicks, with some tiny spots of now stable bubbling corrosion in the obverse field and some minor marks in the upper fields of the reverse.
Pistrucci is probably best known for his Saint George and the Dragon design for the British sovereign coin. He was also commissioned by the British government to create the large Waterloo Medal, a project which took him thirty years to complete.
