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Auction: 409 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 114

Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, AR Medal, 1678, unsigned, by G. Bower, MORIENDO • RESTITVIT • REM • E • GODFREY, draped bust right, being strangled with his own cravat by two hands, rev. TANTVM • RELLIGIO • POTVIT •, prostrate figure being strangled by a man leaning over him; the scene blessed by a papal figure holding a papal bull with BVLLO written on it, CERVICE . FRACTA . FIDEM . SVSTVLIT. ATLAS . XNS . 1678 downwards on edge, 39mm. 26.18g (Eimer 257; MI i 577/247), with bagmarks and pockmarks to flan, yet with a rich cabinet tone to peripheries, about extremely fine

Estimate
$100 to $200

Starting price
$70