Commemorative Medals, Jacobite, James III, the Elder Pretender, Proxy Marriage to Princess Maria Clementina Sobieski, silver medal, 1719, by Ottone Hamerani, armoured bust of James r., IACOBVS. III. D.G. M. B. F. ET. H. REX, rev. bust of Clementina l., her hair tied up with pearls, CLEMENTINA. MAGNAE. BRITANNIAE. ET. C. REG., 48.5mm. (MI.446/52; Eimer 485; Woolf 37.1), good very fine, scarce
The proxy marriage ceremony was held at Bologna on 9 May, 1719; their actual marriage was held four months later at Montefiascone on 1 September.
The Alan Irvine Collection of Historical and Artistic Medals (500-600 GBP)