The Gigantomachy

Triton XVII, Lot: 1523. Estimate $2000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AR Medal (64+mm, 93.10 g, 6h). Commemorating the Restoration of Charles II. By G. Bower. CAROLVS • II • DEI • GRATIA • MAG • BR • FRA • ET • HIB • REX, bust left, wearing robes and collar of the Order of the Garter / The Gigantomachy: Jupiter, in clouds, hurling thunderbolts at Giants prostrate on the ground below. MI 458/50; Eimer 213. EF, toned, a few minor marks in obverse field. Rare.

From the Jonathan H. Kagan Collection.

Hawkins read the depiction of Jupiter defeating the Giants as the punishment of the Regicides by Charles II and the restoring of cosmic order.