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Auction: 23126 - Spink Numismatic e-Circular 30: English and World Coins and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 9480

Second Treaty of Vienna, AE Medal, 1731, by J. Croker, GEORGIVS • II • D : G : MAG : BRI : FRA : ET • H : REX • F • D •, laureate bust left, rev. PRAESTAT • COMPONERE, Neptune in his Marine car driven by four hippocamps commands tranquillity from the winds, FOEDVS • VIENNENSE M•DCC•XXXI in exergue in two lines, plain edge, 47mm, 43.26g (Eimer 523; MI ii 496/39; Harding 61 [in AR]), traces of light contact marking to the obverse field, with a red tone around the reverse devices, otherwise problem free to largely pleasingly brown fields, handsome very fine

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Baldwin's, by private treaty - £120

A number of disagreements had arisen since the Treaty of Utrecht ended the war of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). A treaty signed at Vienna, and mediated by George II, terminated these disputes and, in particular, restored a monopoly over trade with India to the English East India Company.

This medal is interesting principally because of a late but fundamental change in the nature of Croker's work. The obverse has a standard portrait of George II, but the reverse was engraved in a fine baroque style, very different from Croker's earlier work which was based on a more restrained version of French classicism.

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