Baldwin & Sons
Auction 90 24 September 2014
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COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS, Charles II, Silver Official Coronation Medal, 1661, by Thomas Simon, crowned bust of Charles right wearing ermine robes, rev the king enthroned holding sceptre, Peace hovers above him holding crown, 29mm (MI 472/76; E 221). Good very fine, minor marks in obverse field.
This was the official coronation medal, struck to be distributed to spectators at the ceremony on Tuesday, 23 April 1661 (coincidently St George's Day). The diarist Samuel Pepys noted "And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any."
Estimate: £250-300
This was the official coronation medal, struck to be distributed to spectators at the ceremony on Tuesday, 23 April 1661 (coincidently St George's Day). The diarist Samuel Pepys noted "And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any."
Estimate: £250-300