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A gilt-bronze medal depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis in 1792 by C H Küchler England, Soho Mint, dated 1792 image 1
A gilt-bronze medal depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis in 1792 by C H Küchler England, Soho Mint, dated 1792 image 2
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A gilt-bronze medal depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis in 1792 by C H Küchler
England, Soho Mint, dated 1792

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A gilt-bronze medal depicting the surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis in 1792 by C H Küchler
England, Soho Mint, dated 1792

circular, depicting the uniformed bust of Cornwallis facing left, surrounded by the inscription 'CAR . MARCHIO CORNWALLIS STRATEGUS ACERRIMUS', the reverse with Cornwallis and his aides standing receiving the sons of Tipu Sultan, above the inscription 'FAS SIT PARCERE HOSTI' below 'SULTANO TIPPOO DEVICTO / OBSIDES RECIPIT / MDCCXCII'
48 mm. diam.; 60.3 g.

Footnotes

These medals were designed by C. H. Kuchler and produced at Matthew Boulton's Soho manufactory, with some being restruck in the nineteenth century (Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London, 2010, No. 845). The "surrender of Tipu Sultan's sons to Lord Cornwallis" refers to an event during the Third Anglo-Mysore War where Tipu Sultan was forced to surrender two of his sons, Princes Abdul Khaliq (aged 10) and Mohin-ud-din (aged 8), as hostages to Lord Cornwallis, the British Governor-General of India, to guarantee his compliance with the Treaty of Seringapatam on February 26, 1792. Some versions of the medal are incorrectly dated as 1793.

Bronze examples are in the British Museum (Museum No. 1947,0607.663) and the Royal Collection (RCIN 443270). For a further example, see Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London, 2010, No. 845, Pl. 94.

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