The medals commemorative or historical of british freemasonary. Explore the exceptional range of gold, silver, commemorative and collectable coins and medals from the royal mint. British commemorative medals and their values by christopher eimer london, 2010. The book includes 249 full colour plates, illustrating more than 2000 images, and catalogues more than 2200 entries. British commemorative medals and their values by eimer, c. Others are decorations of a pure civilian or military character. Over twothousand medals are listed, with details of subject, date, obverse and reverse descriptions and legends, size, medallist and metals in which they were made.
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