282, Lot: 455. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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STUART. temp. Charles II. 1660-1685. CU Jeton (36mm, 8.21 g, 10h). Alliance of England, France, and the United Provinces. Of uncertain Dutch manufacture. Dated 1662. NON TELIS ( PRIMIS BELGI SEPTEMPLICIS ARMIS ) (
it was not by arrows–which were the first weapons employed by the United Provinces–...), crowned lion rampant left, holding scales and bundle of arrows; 1662 below / SED CONSTANT LIBRA LIBERA REGNA PARI (
...but rather it was through the scales of equality that nations preserve their freedom), capotain surrounded by seven crowned coats-of-arms of France, England, and the United Provinces. MI –; Eimer –; Van Loon II, p. 497. Good VF, brown surfaces.