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Auction: 18006 - Ancient, Indian and Islamic, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1500

Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, 1688, cast and chased silver medal, by J. Smeltzing (after George Bower), capped bust right, rev. bishops in seven friezes, 22.55g, 51mm. (Eimer 288b; MI 622/37), surfaces prepared for gilding, good fine

This medal commemorates the imprisonment of the Seven Bishops for sedition against King James II for their opposition to his Declaration of Indulgence and its attempt to restore religious freedoms and thereby relax the penalties on practicing Catholism.

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Estimate
£70 to £90