Lot 463

A SILVER DEATH OF CHARLES EDWARD STUART MEDALLION

G HAMERANI, 1788

Scotland Collected

Auction: Day Two | Thursday 20 August from 10am | Lots 199 - 555

Estimate: £300 - £500

Description

Obverse right facing portrait of Cardinal Duke of York with motto HEN. IX. MAG. BRIT. FR. ET. HIB. REX. FID. DEF. CARD. EP. TVSC, reverse Religion standing holding the cross with St Peters Rome behind, motto NON. DESIDERIIS. HOMINVM. SED. VOLVVNTATE, DEI. AN. MDCCLXXXVIII; together with a Birth of Charles Edward Stuart medallion, N Roettier, 1720, obverse conjoined busts with motto IACOB. III. R. CLEMENTINA. R., reverse Providence holding an infant pointing to a globe showing his territories, motto PROVIDENTIA OBSTETRIX, in exurge CARLO. PRINC: VALLIAE NAT: DIE. VLTIMA A: MDCCXX (2)

Provenance

Private Collection of a Gentleman

Footnote

Literature: Woolf, N., 'The Medallic Record of the Jacobite Movement', item 73 & 38.1
Eimer, C., 'British Commemorative Medals, and their values', item 823 & 488