Noonans
Auction 265 23 Nov 2022
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Scottish Rebellion Extinguished, [1639], a cast silver medal by T. Simon, undated, King on horseback left, trampling arms, signed s on cuirass on ground, carolvs d g mag brit fran et hib rex, rev. qvos devs, hand issuing from clouds holding cord linking a rose and a thistle, 30mm, 7.45g (Platt I, p.150, type B; MI I, 282/91; E 134a). Surfaces rough, good fine or better £300-£400
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Struck to commemorate the end of the First Bishops' War (May-June 1639), which closed with the Treaty of Berwick. The reverse shows the rose and thistle joined by a cord tied by a hand from above - the divine reunion of England and Scotland.
Scottish Rebellion Extinguished, [1639], a cast silver medal by T. Simon, undated, King on horseback left, trampling arms, signed s on cuirass on ground, carolvs d g mag brit fran et hib rex, rev. qvos devs, hand issuing from clouds holding cord linking a rose and a thistle, 30mm, 7.45g (Platt I, p.150, type B; MI I, 282/91; E 134a). Surfaces rough, good fine or better £300-£400
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Struck to commemorate the end of the First Bishops' War (May-June 1639), which closed with the Treaty of Berwick. The reverse shows the rose and thistle joined by a cord tied by a hand from above - the divine reunion of England and Scotland.