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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 198

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Peace of Utrecht, 1713, AR Medal, by John Croker, ANNA • D G • MAG : BRI • FR : ET • HIB : REG •, laureate and draped bust left, rev. COMPOSITIS • VENERANTVR • ARMIS, Britannia standing holds olive branch, ships to left, farming scene to right, MDCCXIII in exergue, edge plain, 35mm, 15.62g, 1h (Eimer 460; MI ii 402/257), hairline contact marks to reverse, otherwise with darkened tone, lustrous, almost extremely fine

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

Spink, by private treaty, c. 1965 - £5.0.0


This medal commemorating the Peace of Utrecht was struck by authority and distributed at the public expense to members of both houses of parliament and to other persons. There were at least two pairs of dies used.


The Treaty of Utrecht is the general name of a series of treaties which in 1713 and 1714 concluded the war of the Spanish succession. Philip of Spain renounced claim to the French throne. Louis XIV recognised the protestant succession in England and undertook to give no more help to the Stuarts. He also ceded Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, St Kitts and the Hudson Bay Territory. Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca and interests to the Slave Trade. The treaties were bitterly assailed by the whigs and after the accession of George I Bolingbroke, Oxford, Ormonde and Strafford were impeached for it.

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Sold for
$650

Starting price
$100