The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals

The Oxford Memorial, 1648, a cast and chased silver medal, unsigned, altar inscribed p.m. acad. oxon., dividing date, rev. deo ecclesiæ, principi victima in four lines across field, 29mm, 8.82g (Platt I, p.266, type A [A3, this item]; MI I, 348/205; E 165). Small rim fault on reverse at 11 o’clock, otherwise very fine and toned, very rare £400-£600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals.

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J. Noble Collection, DNW Auction 50, 20 June 2001, lot 999

This medal was presented to members of the academic community at Oxford who were victims of a political and religious purge in the late 1640s, the so-called Parliamentary Visitation. Oxford was the principal city of Charles I and his army during four years of the Civil War and despite falling to the Parliamentarians, the city's occupants remained supporters of the Royalist cause. This led to the dismissal of many academics who refused to denounce the king.