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Auction: 6028 - The Lucien LaRiviere Collection- Irish Coins & Medals
Lot: 233

x Ireland, James Butler, Duke of Ormond, silver laudatory Medal, 1682, by George Bower, 47mm., cuirassed bust of the Duke right with long hair falling over shoulder and wearing lace cravat, · IACOBVS · DVX · ORMONIÆ · rev. a sword and olive branch crossed within a coronet · PRÆSIDIVM ET DVLCE DECVS · 1682 (MI.i,585/262; Eimer 263), thin flan, cast and chased, extremely fine with an attractive old tone, extremely rare Estimate £ 1,000-1,500 James Butler, first Duke of Ormond (1610-88), ´the loyal Ormonde´ raised a troop of cuirassers, 1638 and supported the Earl of Strafford, 1640; defeated the Irish rebels, 1642 and 1643; Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1644, royalist commander in Ireland 1648 and concluded peace with the rebels, January 1649; Chancellor of Oxford University, 1669 and again, Lord Lieutentant of Ireland, 1677-82. Cast examples on thin (1.6 mm) flans appear to be very much rarer than those on thick flans. SNC June 1964, No. 5223 Sotheby, 1 October, 1987, lot 394 Morton & Eden, 21 May 2003, lot 1229 (C. Humphries coll.)

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