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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 170

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Landing of William III of Orange at Torbay, AR Medal, 1688, of Dutch Manufacture, SOLI DEO GLORIA, Liberty personified, leaning upon a bible beneath an orange tree in bloom, rev. IN TVITIONEM RELIG PROTES, BRITANNIA in field below, TORBAY to left, Belgic lion holds clutch of arrows and sword, trampling serpent near overthrown column of Magna Carta, edge plain, 44mm, 24.93g, 12h (MI ii 641/67), a sublime example, beautifully cabinet toned overlying proof-like original surfaces, good extremely fine and much as issued, very rare in this exceptional state

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

SNC, January 1968, no. 575 - EF - £12.10.0

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Sold for
$4,000

Starting price
$750