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Auction: 6029 - The Lucien LaRiviere Collection - Scottish Coins & Medals
Lot: 282

x James I (1394-1437), portrait medal, cast Æ 54, unsigned, after an opaque paste medal by James Tassie, draped bust wearing cap threequarters right, JACOBUS PRIMUS, rev. NAT. JUL. / MCCCXCIV . / CORONAT 21 MAII / MCCCCXXIV . / A PERDUELLIBUS / CONFOSSUS 20 FEB / MCCCCXXXVII (CP.p.1; MI.i,13/2), casting flaw on obverse rim at seven o´clock otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare Estimate £ 200-250provenance: Glendining 21 March 1990, lot 267 Probably one of an incomplete series of medals in cast bronze intended to be a series of the monarchs of Scotland, produced in the early 19th century.

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