Rarest of the Stuart Touch Pieces

420307.

Sold For $975

STUART. Charles Edward Stuart ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie (the Young Pretender)’. As Charles III in pretence, 1720-1788. AR Touch Piece Medalet (21mm, 2.53 g, 12h). Of Italian Manufacture, possibly by F. Hamerani. CAR · III · D · G · [M] · B · F · ET · H · R ·, royal warship under sail right / SOLI DEO GLORIA, archangel Michael slaying the Dragon. Woolf, Sovereign dies O2/R2; Woolf 68; cf. Hawkins 140 (James III). Good VF, toned, holed for suspension at 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock. The rarest of the Stuart touch pieces.