Great Britain, Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey AR Medal. AD 1678. Unsigned by G. Bower. MORIENDO • RESTITVIT • REM • E GODFREY •, bust of Godfrey to right, being strangled with his own cravat / ECCLESIA PERVERSA TENET FACIEO DIABOLI (the perverse church bears the face of the devil), bust of the Pope to left wearing triple tiara, inverting into bust of the Devil with sow's ear and horn. MI I, p. 578, 250, pl. 59, 11; Eimer 259; Mitchiner, Jetons, Medalets & Tokens II, 3030. 27.47g, 37mm, 12h.

Extremely Fine.

From a private European collection.