A Scion Society of The Baker Street Irregulars
Alex Shagin’s 1991 Portrait Medal of Arthur Conan Doyle
“… it bore some resemblance …”
– The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (WIST)
In 1991, Alex Shagin, a former head engraver with the Leningrad Mint, cast a medal featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, which was marketed by Sherlock, Stock & Barrel, a firm owned by Edward C. Rochette, the 4th Garrideb of our scion. Cast in both silver and bronze, they were limited to 100 castings. We do not know if this was one hundred in each metal or total for both metals. The bronze medal sold for $75 and the silver for $150.
OBVERSE: CONAN / (three-quarter bust of Arthur Conan Doyle, facing right, wearing a cap) / DOYLE
REVERSE: OPUS ARTUM / (letters & papers on a desk, along with a inkwell and quill, magnifying glass, and a lit oil lamp in front of a window with curtains)
75 mm, Square, Bronze
and
75 mm, Square, Silver
[…] The reverse design of the half dollar was designed by BOTH Alex Shagin and Marcel Jovine. Take a close look at the design – it’s nothing but letters and stars. There really is no design and yet it took two artists to collaborate on it? Shagin is known for his Sherlock Holmes art medal and his Arthur Conan Doyle art medal. […]
This story was highlighted in the December 3, 2017 issue of The E-Sylum and can be viewed at http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/esylum_v20n50a20.html