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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 188

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Union of England and Scotland, AR Medal, 1707, by John Croker, ANNA • D : G • MAG : BRI : FR : ET • HIB : REG :, crowned and draped bust left, rev. MAII • I • MDCCVII, British shield within the Garter, upon a pedestal inscribed with the double cypher of AR; supported by Lion and Unicorn, edge plain, 47mm, 41.42g, 12h (Eimer 424; MI ii, 295/107-10), some partial carbonisation and staining, otherwise lustrous under darkened surfaces, with petrol blue and ochre accentuation, extremely fine

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

Baldwins, by private treaty, c. 1965 - £7.10.0


There are two different dies used for the obverse of this medal; one has the shoulder straps plain, the other decorated. The Act of Union between England and Scotland received the royal assent on the 6th March 1707, and came into operation on the 1st May following. The Union is indicated on this medal by the English and Scottish coat of arms being impaled in the first and fourth quarters, in the conjunction of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew upon one shield, and in the rose and thistle growing upon one stalk on the other.

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Sold for
$1,100

Starting price
$250