Watch List notes:

BRITISH COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS. Oliver Cromwell, The Great Seal of Scotland, 1656, by Thomas Simon, an impression of the counterseal in lead, Cromwell on horseback to left, Scottish shield behind, a vista of Edinburgh with the castle left, shipping on the Forth and armies marching, OLIVARIVS DEI GRA REIP ANGLIÆ SCOTIÆ ET HIBERNIÆ &c PROTECTOR, 130mm, perhaps contemporary, more probably early 18th century (Vertue pl XIX and p.30).Cast on a solid and heavy flan, pierced by O of OLIVARIVS, extremely rare.
bought Spink, 17 October 1977

Estimate: £1200-1500