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Auction: 25007 - … British and World Coins and Medals featuring The Oriole Collection of Gold and Silver English Coins
Lot: 425

Peace or War, AE Medal, 1643, unsigned, CAROLVS D G ANG SCO FR ET HIB REX, laureate and draped bust right, rev. IN • VTRVMQVE • PARATVS •, sword and laurel wreath in saltire, dividing crowned C-R, date in exergue, 8.20g, 29mm (Eimer 142; MI I, 308/134), weakly struck and with some toning spots, about very fine and scarcely encountered

Provenance
Andrew Howitt [History in Coins], by private treaty, May 2010


Struck in accordance with the views of Charles after the defeat of Waller and the reduction of Bristol, when he summoned his Council 'to consider how these great blessings in war might be applied to the procuring a happy peace'.

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Estimate
£200 to £250

Starting price
£140