| SINCONA AG > Auction 96 | Auction date: 26 May 2025 |
| Lot number: 52 Price realized: 550 CHF (Approx. 670 USD / 590 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: SINCONA BRITISH COLLECTION – PART 6. BRITISH GOLD AND SILVER MEDALS. CHARLES I. 1625-1649. Gilded Cast Silver Medal n. d. (1649). Royalist Badge. Charles and Henrietta Maria. Unsigned, by T. Rawlins. Bust laureate, armoured and draped. Rv. Bust of the Queen draped. Floral borders on edge. 28.3 x 32 mm. 7.56 g. Eimer 170a. MI i 355/218. Zeitgenössischer überarbeiteter Guss mit Henkelspuren / Contemporary tooled cast with traces of mounting. Sehr schön / Very Fine. (~€ 270/USD 290) The couple first met in 1623 at a court entertainment in Paris, when he was on his way to Spain with the Duke of Buckingham to discuss a possible marriage with Maria Anna of Spain, which failed for a variety of reasons. Searching elsewhere for a bride, Charles sent a close friend to Paris in 1624 who, a Francophile and a godson of Henry IV of France, strongly favoured a marriage with Henrietta Maria, the terms of which were negotiated by James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle. Henrietta Maria was aged fifteen at the time of her marriage, which was not unusual for royal princesses of the period. This type of medals are all cast and chased and were executed by Thomas Rawlins. Starting price: 250 CHF |  |
