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Auction: 3014 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 324

James III (son of James II 1688-1766), Italian made pierced copper touchpiece, of crude design, 2.95g. three masted ship in full sail right, iac.iii.d.g.m.b. f:et h.r. f struck over a lower f or p, toothed border both sides, rev.struck en medaille, St. Michael killing dragon left, soli.deo gloria. (MIii 316/140; Woolf 35) very fine and very rare, a crude unplated specimen Estimate £ 100-150 provenance Marquess of Bute, Sotheby, 11 June 1951, lot 114A

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