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Auction 142 13-15 Sep 2017
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COINS AND HISTORICAL MEDALS FROM THE COLLECTION FORMED BY THE LATE REVD. CHARLES CAMPBELL
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, a struck silver medal by G. Bower, draped bust right, hands strangling him with his own cravat, rev. Godfrey lying on the ground in the act of being strangled, Pope to left holds a document over the murderer's head, edge cervice fracta fidem svstvlit atlas nxs and date, 39mm, 27.02g (MI I, 577/247; E 257a). About extremely fine, toned £200-260
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The edge lettering on MI 577/247 ends nxs, not xns as per the standard references
BRITISH HISTORICAL MEDALS, British Historical Medals, Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, a struck silver medal by G. Bower, draped bust right, hands strangling him with his own cravat, rev. Godfrey lying on the ground in the act of being strangled, Pope to left holds a document over the murderer's head, edge cervice fracta fidem svstvlit atlas nxs and date, 39mm, 27.02g (MI I, 577/247; E 257a). About extremely fine, toned £200-260
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The edge lettering on MI 577/247 ends nxs, not xns as per the standard references