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363, Lot: 539. Estimate $300.
Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. Charles II. 1660-1685. AR Medal (39mm, 26.07 g, 12h). The Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678. [By G. Bower]. Dated 1678. MORIENDO • RESTITVIT • REM • E • GODFREY, bareheaded and draped bust right, being strangled by two detached hands holding cord / TANTVM • RELIGIO • POTVIT •, Pope standing slightly right, holding a bull inscribed BVLLO and blessing the scene of a man, prostrate, being strangled by another man. Edge: CERVICE • FRACTA • FIDEM • SVSTVLIT • ATLAS • XNS • 1678 (design of five pellets). MI 577/247; Eimer 257a. Good VF, toned, light marks and scratches.