Prize Medals Online
Due to a generous grant from the Marc Fitch Fund, catalogue entries and images of the British Museum's collection of more than one thousand school prize medals are now available online atwww.britishmuseum.org/ research/collection_online/search.aspx. These medals range from individually engraved pieces to works by well- known medallists and range from the 18th to the 20th century.Very soon they will be joined by similar records of the Museum's collection of around 2,500 medals issued as awards and prizes by a broad range of other institutions, including agricultural,temperance and friendly societies, livery companies, arts organisations, masonic and sporting bodies, as well as official civil and military awards. This second phase has been made possible thanks tothe generosity of the Mercers' Company.

To access the catalog records, see:
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see MORE ON SCHOOLCHILD REWARD OF MERIT MEDALS(http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n34a14.html)