COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS, Princess Matilda and the Electress Sophia, Silver Medal, 1701, by Samuel Lambelet, bust of each to right, either side, MATILDAN FILIA H II R ANGL VX H LEON D BAV ET SAX – MATER OTT IV IMP PRIVS DVC AQVIT H PAL RHEN D S WILH – SATORIS DOMVS BRVNS, rev SOPHIA EX STIRPE EL PAL NEPT IAC I REG M BRIT VIDVA ERN AVG ELECT BRVNS ET LVN ANGLIAE PRINCEPS AD SVCCESSIO NOMINATA MDCCI, 65mm (MI ii 218/542; Brockm 752; Stemper 197). Extremely fine or virtually so.
The medal was struck to demonstrate how, following the lack of male heirs by either Queen Mary or Queen Anne, the Protestant line would succeed to the English throne, from the descendants of these two princesses, as indeed happened in 1714.
Estimate: £600-800