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Auction: 25055 - British Medals and World Coins featuring The Hurter-Amman Collection of Ancient and European Gold
Lot: 735

NGC MS62 | Birth of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, AR Medal, 1720, by E. Hamerani, IACOBVS • III • R • CLEMENTINA • R •, conjoined draped busts right, James III armoured, rev. PROVIDENTIA OBSTETRIX, Providence, leaning against a column, indicates to an infant in her arms the territories of Britain and Ireland, CAROLO • PRINC : VALLIAE NAT: DIE • VLTIMA A : MDCCXX • in exergue in three lines, 41mm, 37.38g (Eimer 488; MI ii 452/60; Woolf 38.1), a couple of minor contact marks, the obverse struck from a faintly rusted die, with a handsome cabinet tone to glossy-brilliant fields, a charming design in high relief, good extremely fine, in NGC holder, graded MS62 (Cert. #8222378-006)

Provenance

The Craven Collection of British Historical Medals



James and Clementina met for the first time early in September 1719. The Marriage ceremony was performed on their first evening together. Prince, Charles, later to be known as Bonnie Prince Charlie, was born on the last day of 1720. This event was marked by the issue of a medal, engraved by Ermenegildo Hamerani. The obverse carries a conventional double portrait, the reverse a figure of Providence and an infant, an obvious allusion to the 'rights' of the infant Prince.



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Estimate
£400 to £600

Starting price
£280