Tassie Coin Impression MyI no 718
Purchased May 6, 2022.
Purchased From: Online shop of Timothy Medhurst. Original listing no longer available online.
Description:
An Early 19th Century Grand Tour Wax Coin Impression Of An Ancient Greek Drachm, c.400 B.C.
4.9cm wide overall.
Obverse: A grotestque style head of Medusa in classic attic style, with protruding tongue.
The wax Impression laid to resin within its original card slip, numbered in ink “344”.
Some minor wear to the card as expected with age, the wax and resin cracked with some small pieces missing. An attractive and very decorative piece. Medhurst original images shown below.
From Catalogue of Greek coins in the Hunterian collection
MyI No. 718 shown below on left; Image from Catalogue shown on right. Tassie coin impressions were primarily taken from the collection of Dr. William Hunter, the originator of the Hunterian Collection.
“Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection”, Vol I, University of Glasgow
by Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow); MacDonald, George, 1862-1940
Publication date 1899
Topics Coins, Greek
Publisher Glasgow, J. Maclehose and Sons
Text p16 pdf 94 of 638 image Pl I no. 5
v. 1. Italy, Sicily, Macedon, Trace, and Thessaly.–v. 2. North western Greece, Central Greece, Southern Greece, and Asia Minor.–v. 3. Further Asia, Northern Africa, Western Europe
“Gorgon’s head, deademed; beneath, XX; border of dots.”
“Two caducei, in opposite directions; in plain field”
[PLATE I, 5.]
