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Auction: 25055 - British Medals and World Coins featuring The Hurter-Amman Collection of Ancient and European Gold
Lot: 713

Restoration of Charles II, AR Medal, 1660, by Thomas Rawlins, CVM • DVPLICATVR • ONVS • REDIT • MOYSES • Moses approaching the people of Israel while brickmaking under Egyptian taskmasters, rev. inscription within a wreath of oak, • IN • | AETER : MEMOR : | CAROLI • II • MA : BR : | FRANC : ET • HIBERN : | CLEMENTISSIMI • | REGIS : REDS • | 29 • MAII : | 1660 • edge plain, 31mm, 8.99g [138.74grns] (Eimer 217; MI ii 462/56, van Loon II, 464), softness to the tops of obverse devices, nonetheless lustrous, pleasingly so to the reverse and toned, very fine / extremely fine, very rare

Provenance

Robert Pearce, St James's 103, 15 April 2025, lot 360


With old collector's ticket


Hawkins, in Medallic Illustrations [1885] assigns this medal to Thomas Simon but without evidence. Grueber, in the MI Plates [1911], makes the more compelling attribution to Thomas Rawlins, the maker of several Restoration medals.


Charles is here compared to Moses returning to the relief of his countrymen when suffering most severely under the tyranny of their oppressors. The oak may allude to his preservation in the oak-tree; or to the oak wreath presented to those who had preserved the lives of their fellow-citizens.


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Estimate
£1,000 to £1,200

Starting price
£800