Spink > Auction 24186Auction date: 25 September 2024
Lot number: 142

Price realized: 130 GBP   (Approx. 174 USD / 156 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


Various Medals (4) including: Papal States, Paul III, Restitution, AE Restrike Medal, 1664, by Girolamo Paladino, PAVLVS III PONT MAX AN XV, bust right, wearing tonsure and mantum, · MDIL · below, triskeles stops, rev. AVITÆ FARNES IORVM STIRPIS, coat-of-arms with crossed keys and filleted tiara above, triskeles stops, plain edge, 45 mm, 45.19g, (Modesti 373; Lincoln 439), large die flaws across the obverse, making for an intriguing blundered portrait, brown surfaces, toned, reverse particularly pleasing, very fine; also Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, AR Cast and Chased medal, 1688, by J. Smeltzing, * GVIL X SANCROFT . ARCHIEPISC . CANTVAR . 1688 ., clerically robed bust right, rev. seven medallions each containing the bust of one of the seven Bishops, stars in fields, 49 mm, 24.38g, (MI i, 622/37; Eimer 288b), some light hairlining in the fields, toned, very fine; and Capture of Sardinia and Minorca, AE Medal, 1708, by John Croker, ANNA o D : G : MAG : BRI : FRA : ET o HIB : REG :, draped bust left, rev. SARDINIA : ET o BALEARIS MINOR o CAPTAE, Victory standing on a conch floating in the sea; on either side, beyond, are two islands, MDCCVIII o in exergue, edge plain, 40mm, 23.81g, 12h (Eimer 434; MI ii 329/157; MH 1919, 146), wear to the higher points and some small bruises in the fields, otherwise near very fine; also Anne Memorial, AE Medal, 1714, by Jean Dassier, ANNA D. G. M. BR. FR. ET HIB. REGINA., bust left, rev. Fame reveals a medallion of Prince George on an obelisk, decorated with military trophies, inscribed NATA 6. FEBR. 1665. CORONAT. 23. APR. 1702. MORT. I. AVG. 1714., plain edge, 41 mm, 33.37 g, (Eimer 462; MI II, 417/292; EIS (1) 264/32), struck in 1731, from Dassier's series of English kings and queens, mottled toning with some beginnings of verdigris, otherwise very fine (4).
Provenance,
The Orrysdale Collection of Dr John Frissell Crellin MRCS MHK (1816-1886),
,
William Sancroft was the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury, and was one of seven Bishops imprisoned in 1688 for seditious libel against King James II.
Estimate: £200 - £300