Auction: 25055 - British Medals and World Coins featuring The Hurter-Amman Collection of Ancient and European Gold
Lot: 718
NGC MS61 | *Top Pop* | Archbishop Sancroft and the Bishops, AR [Struck?] Medal, 1688, by G. Bower, * GVIL • SANCROFT • ARCHIEPISC • CANTVAR • 1688, wearing cap and clerical robed, bust right, rev. seven medallions containing the portraits of the bishops, stars between, edge plain, 51mm, 53.81g [830.42grns] (Eimer 288b; MI i, 622/37), with usual hairline die flaw to reverse, as commonly encountered on struck examples, lightly contact marked, otherwise with a pleasing cabinet tone in hues of blue and purple, lustrous, about extremely fine, in NGC holder, graded MS61 (Cert. #8222378-005) [*Joint Finest Certified*]
Provenance
The Craven Collection of British Historical Medals
https://www.ngccoin.uk/certlookup/8222378-005/61/
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Estimate
£200 to £300
Starting price
£140