Heritage World Coin Auctions > Dallas Signature Sale 3126Auction date: 6 November 2025
Lot number: 32205

Price realized: 8,000 USD   (Approx. 6,933 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Great Britain
Harrow School gold "Isabella-Gregory" Prize Medal 1853-Dated MS60 Deep Prooflike NGC, BHM-Unl. 45mm. 67.00gm. Isabella-Gregory Prize Medal for Latin awarded to J.W. Hozier. By W. Wyon. Façade of the building; In exergue: STET FORTVNA DOMVS // Legend in eight lines within wreath: IN MEMORIAM ISABELLAE CONJUGIS RICARDUS GREGORY HARROVIENSIS HARROVIENSIBUS PROPOSUIT M . S . MDCCCXXXVIII. Edge engraving: JOHN WALLACE HOZIER. 1853.

Richard Gregory created this gold award medal weighing 10 guineas in November 1838 in memory of his first wife Isabella. It was to be awarded annually to pupils of the Harrow School in north-west London, a school steeped in tradition, for the composition of Latin prose. Gregory also endowed scholarships for Harrow pupils to study Latin at Cambridge and Oxford. The school's most famous pupil was Winston Churchill. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice

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