285, Lot: 528. Estimate $200. Sold for $305. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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temp. HANOVER. Charles Edward Stuart ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ (the Young Pretender). As Prince of Wales
in pretence, 1701-1766. Æ Medal (35mm, 17.81 g, 9h). Edinburgh Occupied by Prince Charles. Struck circa 1745. CAROLUS PRINCEPS, Charles standing left, wearing decorative Scottish attire, pointing to left; in background to left, an attendant waits in readiness / Fame flying left, holding crown and blowing from trumpet issuing banner inscribed SUUM CUIQUE (
to each his own); cityscape in the background. MI 601/254; Eimer 602; Woolf 50:1. VF, dark brown surfaces, some light marks in the field on the reverse. Rare.