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Local, LONDON, City of London School, J.T. Conquest Prize, 1838, a silver gilt award by B. W...
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Local, LONDON, City of London School, J.T. Conquest Prize, 1838, a silver gilt award by B. Wyon, frontal elevation of the school, rev. named (Jacobo Smith Reid, Studiis Feliciter Inceptis Praemium Datum Est MDCCCLXIV) 58mm, 35.85g (cf. BHM 1680; cf. E 1279; cf. Taylor 120a). Extremely fine and apparently very rare with this reverse £80-£100 --- James Smith Reid, FBA (1846–1926) was an English author, scholar and historian. Educated at the City of London School, which was then in Milk Street, Cheapside, he was appointed the first Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, serving from 1899 to 1925. He was author of numerous articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) and a great number of Latin textbooks. He also translated Cicero's Academica.
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Local, LONDON, City of London School, J.T. Conquest Prize, 1838, a silver gilt award by B. Wyon, frontal elevation of the school, rev. named (Jacobo Smith Reid, Studiis Feliciter Inceptis Praemium Datum Est MDCCCLXIV) 58mm, 35.85g (cf. BHM 1680; cf. E 1279; cf. Taylor 120a). Extremely fine and apparently very rare with this reverse £80-£100 --- James Smith Reid, FBA (1846–1926) was an English author, scholar and historian. Educated at the City of London School, which was then in Milk Street, Cheapside, he was appointed the first Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, serving from 1899 to 1925. He was author of numerous articles in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) and a great number of Latin textbooks. He also translated Cicero's Academica.
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