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<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">British India,&nbsp;1792, Lord Cornwallis -Defeat of Tipu Sultan Medal, Bronze,&nbsp;Soho Mint, Obv: uniformed bust, bare head of Cornwallis facing left, lettering "CAR. MARCHIO CORNWALLIS STRATEGLIS ACERRIMUS"&nbsp;(Charles, Marquis Cornwallis, a most sagacious general), Signed: C.H. Kuchler. FEC:, Rev: Cornwallis and audes greeting two sons of Tipu Sultan delivered by Vakil Ghulam Ali Khan, “FAS SIT PARCERE HOSTI” (Let it be right to spare an enemy) around the border at top, “SULTANO TIPPOO DEVIETO, OBSIDES RECIPIT. MDCCXCII” (Tipu Sultan defeated. Hostages received 1792)” in the exergue, Signed: CHK. FECIT,&nbsp;42.37g, (Puddester # 792.1.1/Eimer # 845),&nbsp;graded &amp; slabbed by PCGS as MS 65, Top-Pop,&nbsp;Exceedingly Rare in this condition.</div>

Note:&nbsp;These medals were designed by C. H. Küchler and produced at Matthew Boulton’s Soho Manufactory, with some examples subsequently restruck in the 19th century (Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals and their Values, London, 2010, No. 845).<o:p></o:p>The reverse depicts the historic surrender of Tipu Sultan’s sons to Lord Cornwallis following the conclusion of the Third Anglo Mysore War. Under the Treaty of Seringapatam, signed on 26 February 1792, Tipu Sultan was compelled to surrender his two young sons, Princes Abdul Khaliq, aged 10, and Muhi ud din, aged 8, as hostages to guarantee his compliance with the terms of the treaty. The dramatic episode became one of the most celebrated representations associated with the Mysore campaign.<o:p></o:p>Some examples of the medal are incorrectly dated 1793. Bronze specimens are also recorded in the collections of the British Museum and the Royal Collection.Top-pop, highest graded known coin for the type.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>

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