Triton XVII, Lot: 1533. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. James II. 1685-1688. AR Medal (59mm, 83.50 g, 12h). Commemorating the Open Letter of Gaspar Fagel to the British People in Support of William of Orange. Of Dutch manufacture. [By J. Smeltzing(?)]. Dated 1688 (in Roman numerals. LIBERTAS CONSCIENTIÆ HOC MONILI ORNATA ., religious objects surmounted by cap inscribed LIBERTAS set on ornate base inscribed BRITANNIA; above, hand of God holding proclamation inscribed C. FAGELII/EPISTOLA/EFFLAGITATA/A/I. STEWARDO/1687 / RES IMMODERATA CUPIDO EST, Hound, wearing rosary and holding book inscribed M. I., standing slightly left on ground with raised right paw placed on book inscribed S • R • P • set on ornate altar decorated with medallions inscribed S and P, and entwined sepent; left paw on book inscribed L.C.. Van Loon III 361; MI 620/35; Eimer –. EF, toned. Rare.

From the Jonathan H. Kagan Collection. Ex Sotheby's (3 October 1996), lot 274.