Description
GREAT BRITAIN Edward VIII Coronation 35mm bronze medal 16.17 grams by Pinches (BHM 4291, Whittlestone & Ewing 6682, Giordano CM246)
Obverse: crowned, robed Edward VIII facing left, EDWARD VIII AND EMPEROR / L.E.P.
Reverse: crown on Tudor rose, TO COMMEMORATE THE CORONATION OF/ H. M. KING EDWARD VIII MAY 12TH 1937
John Pinches (Medallists) Family of London die-sinkers and medallists. The company was founded c1841 by Thomas Ryan Pinches and his younger brother John Pinches, to whom he left the running of the business in 1856. John Harvey Pinches (q.v.), eldest son of John Pinches, continued to run the company after the death of his father in 1905 and turned it into a limited company, John Pinches (Medallists) Limited, in 1940. John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd was taken over by the Franklin Mint of Philadelphia, USA, in 1969.
