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Auction: 394 - Coins, Commemorative Medals, Autographs and Documents - e-Auction
Lot: 224

Great Britain. George II (1727-1760). Prince Charles Edward Stuart and Prince Henry Benedict Maria Clement: Legitimacy of the Jacobite Succession. Medal, ca. 1731. Silver, 41.9mm. By O. Hamerani. Armored and draped bust of Charles right, star before; MICAT. INTER. OMNES, rev. Armored and draped bust of Henry left; ALTER. AB. I.LLO. Edge: DIE. XXXI. DECEMBR. MDCCXX. EXTVLIT. OS. SACRVM. COELO. Prince Henry, brother of Charles Edward Stuart, was the fourth and final direct male descendant of the Stuart royal line to publicly claim the throned of Great Britain and Ireland. After Charles death in January 1788, the Papacy did not recognize Henry as the legitimate ruler of Great Britain and Ireland, instead referring to him as Cardinal Duke of York. Gold and turquoise blue highlights. Eimer 521; MI ii 492/34.

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