| Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 18 | Auction date: 11 June 2025 |
| Lot number: 419 Price realized: 18,000 GBP (Approx. 24,370 USD / 21,227 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Prince Rupert, 1645, silver-gilt medal or military reward, unsigned [by T. Rawlins ()], half-length bust three-quarters left, holding a baton and wearing a Royalist badge on sash, lace collar over armour, his hair long and tied with a ribbon, rev. arms of the Prince on three shields, with lion supporters, crested helm and decorative scrolls above, between RP [Rupertus Princeps], 42 x 30mm, 19.93g (Platt II, pp.268-9, type B [B1, this piece]; MI I, 323/159; MH 30). Very fine and rare.Provenance:Platt & Platt B1, this pieceBought Dr. Jerome J Platt Collection, Noonan's Auction 265, 23 November 2022, lot 74Ex Baldwin Auction 28, 9 October 2001, lot 1917Ex Daniel Fearon, Spink Auction 8, 27 February 1980, lot 381Ex Lt-Col. Sir G. Dalrymple White, Glendining's, 24-26 July 1946, lot 1Ex Brigadier-General G. Ll. Palmer, Glendining's, 18-20 June 1919, lot 2Ex J.E. Hodgkin, Sotheby's, 22-23 April 1914, lot 27Ex H. Montagu, Sotheby's, 24-29 May 1897, lot 160Prince Rupert: grandson of James I, third son of King Frederick and Queen Elizabeth (Stuart) of Bohemia, nephew of Charles I, Count Palatine of Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Duke of Cumberland and Earl of Holderness. Prominent in the Royalist forces, in 1642 he was appointed General of the Horse and, having secured the Crown its first victory of the war, at Worcester, he fought at several historic civil war battles including Naseby and Marston Moor. Following the Commonwealth's victory, he left England returning after the Restoration to serve in the Navy under James, Duke of York. He was Admiral of the White fighting at both Lowestoft (see lot 428) and at Solebay, and ultimately received the title General at Sea and Land. Courageous and irascible in equal measure, he remains one of the most romantic Cavalier figures in British history. Starting price: 10000 GBP |  |
