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Auction 74 12-13 Apr 2023
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William III, Centenary of the Glorious Revolution, a pair of uniface bronze medallets, laureate bust of William III r., LIBERTATIS BRIT: ASSERTOR 1688, 23.5 & 18mm., larger very fine, smaller better, both very rare (2)
The British Museum has a gilt example catalogued as a button, cf. Awais-Dean, Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England, London, 2017, pp. 40 & 141. Also cf. D. T. Batty, Batty's Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, etc., Manchester, 1868-95, vol. III, p. 823, no. 1649.
Estimate: 70 - 100 GBP
The British Museum has a gilt example catalogued as a button, cf. Awais-Dean, Bejewelled: Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England, London, 2017, pp. 40 & 141. Also cf. D. T. Batty, Batty's Catalogue of the Copper Coinage of Great Britain, Ireland, etc., Manchester, 1868-95, vol. III, p. 823, no. 1649.
Estimate: 70 - 100 GBP