CNG 97, Lot: 955. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

MEXICO, Colonial. Fernando VII. King of Spain, 1808-1833. AR Proclamation Medal (69mm, 96.65 g, 12h). Issued by the Archbishop of Mexico City. By Tomas Suria. Struck 1810. Two standing female figures (Spain and England), draped, cuirassed, and wearing crested helmets; between them, a globe wrapped in chains (the globe depicts the Old World); Hispania and Britannia are unchaining the globe with one hand each and hold an olive branch and fasces between them; on the left, a caduceus and trident; on the right, forepart of a lion facing left; above, a radiant triangle inscribed in Hebrew (the tetragrammaton for Jehovah); in exergue, MEXICI•/PROREGE AC PONTIF•/LIZANA in three lines ( Mexico Viceroy Archbishop Lizana) / HISPAN• ET ANGEL•/CONCORDIA RESTITUTA/ORBIS LIBERTAS/AUGURATA in four lines (“By the grace of Spain and England, peace has been restored to the world”); below in two lines, XIMENO INV• SURIA SCULP• ANO 1810•; above, eight-rayed star; all within wreath. Grove F-20. EF, toned, two small test scratches on the obverse between 10 and 11 o’clock, hairline scratches on both sides. Very rare, includes a 19th century cardboard circular box with lid. Possibly from the collection of José T. Medina.