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Auction: 22007 - British and World Coins and Commemorative Medals Autumn Auction
Lot: 725A

Charles, Elevation to the Prince of Wales, 1616, A Pair of Museum Uniface Electrotypes (Numbered. 54), in Silvered White-Metal, after Simon van de Passe, ILLUSTRISS : ET POTEN : PRINC CAROLUS MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ ET HYBERNIÆ PRINCEPS EBOR : ET ALB : DUX, youthful portrait three-quarters right but head facing, wearing Order of St George, 48.5 x 60.5mm, 42.69g; the other, Charles rides right with plumed hat and General's baton, in the background, a view of Hampton Court, below a cartouche with coat of arms between CAROLVS - PRINCEPS, 42.47g (Falkiner, 'The Medallic Works of Simon de Passe, 6"; Hird [1974], 288 = Spink 82, 1991, lot 91), a faithful copy of this remarkable and highly fashionable medal struck in the year of Pocahontas' arrival in England, an excellent display piece for the prohibitively rare original (2 pieces)

Hird's example of this medal in gold recently sold in Europe for 90,000 Euros

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