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Auction: 23107 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 27: British and World Coins, Medals and Tokens Featuring the 'Leja Park' Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 7438

NGC MS62 PL | Religious State of England, AR Medal, 1688, by J. Smeltzing, LIBERTAS CONSCIENTIAE HOC MONILI ORNATA•, pedestal inscribed BRITANNIA, on it ecclesiastical items, over this a hand from heaven holds a scroll inscribed C • FAGELII EPISTOLA EFFLAGITATA A I • STEWARDO 1687 •, rev. RES IMMODERATA CIPIDO EST, a dog wearing a rosary, about to swallow a book, tramples on another and rests a paw on another, MDCLXXXVIII in exergue, plain edge, 59mm, 85.56g (Eimer -; MI 620/35; van Loon III, 361), some nailmarks and hairlines to fields, otherwise with brilliant and most attractive fields, hints of toning to edge of devices, extremely fine and extremely rare, only one other example in this metal on CoinArchives, in NGC holder, graded MS62 PL (Cert. #6295586-002)

The Dr Brian Harding Collection

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