Baldwin's of St. James's
Auction 48 24 Sep 2020
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Commemorative Medals, Scotland, James III and VIII Presented to Scotland [Restoration of the Kingdom], pewter medal, c. 1712-13, by Norbert Roettier, obverse and reverse struck separately, armoured bust of James l., with long hair, CVIVS – EST, rev. legend in 9 lines, THVLE – HIC VIR HIC EST TIBI QVEM PROMITTI SAEPIVS AVDIS. IACOBVS CAESAR DIVI GENVS AVREA RVRSVS, SECVLA QVI REDDIT SCOTIS, 51.5 & 52mm. (MI.314/137; Woolf 27.2; Woolf Collection, Glendining Auction 4 November 1992, lot 86, 2nd item, electrotype copy), very fine, exceedingly rare and perhaps the second known example
Wolf argues that the medal was intended to support the Jacobite succession in the period immediately prior to the death of Queen Anne, when the Duke of Hamilton was expected to move to Paris as the Queen's Ambassador. His sudden death, killed in a duel, prevented this and historians can only speculate. The reverse legend is a re-working of two lines of the Aeneid (VI 972-74), believed adapted by active Jacobite Archibald Pitcairn (1652-1713). Whilst the reverse of the reverse is blank, a conventional 'squeeze' from a die, the obverse shows signs of the map of the British Isles and the REDDITE IGITVR legend of the Peace of Utrecht [Restoration of the Kingdom] medal. MI lists a single specimen, again in pewter, though as a solid medal. A second medal for the same occasion (Woolf 27.1), is known from four specimens and Wolf implies all are in two separate halves.
(200-250 GBP)
Wolf argues that the medal was intended to support the Jacobite succession in the period immediately prior to the death of Queen Anne, when the Duke of Hamilton was expected to move to Paris as the Queen's Ambassador. His sudden death, killed in a duel, prevented this and historians can only speculate. The reverse legend is a re-working of two lines of the Aeneid (VI 972-74), believed adapted by active Jacobite Archibald Pitcairn (1652-1713). Whilst the reverse of the reverse is blank, a conventional 'squeeze' from a die, the obverse shows signs of the map of the British Isles and the REDDITE IGITVR legend of the Peace of Utrecht [Restoration of the Kingdom] medal. MI lists a single specimen, again in pewter, though as a solid medal. A second medal for the same occasion (Woolf 27.1), is known from four specimens and Wolf implies all are in two separate halves.
(200-250 GBP)