British Medals, George I, Accession 1714, white metal medal, by Georg Wilhelm Vestner (1677-1740), laureate bust r., with mantle around, signed with a star below truncation, rev. the Hanoverian horse leaps from Germany to the British Isles, dated in chronogram, ACCEDENS DIGNVS DIVISOS ORBE BRITANNOS, 44mm. (MI.422/5; Eimer 465; Brockmann 814), struck with usual small copper 'plug', extremely fine and scarce
*ex 'English Collector', Glendining's, 16 March 1989, lot 466, part
The star signature on the obverse now attributed by some to Philipp Heinrich Müller (1654-1719).
(100-150 GBP)