The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins

V: Original Medals by Simon, Scottish Rebellion Extinguished, 1639, a struck silver medal, unsigned, King on horseback left, trampling arms, date in exergue, carolvs d g mag brit fran et hib rex, rev. qvos devs, hand issuing from clouds holding cord linking a rose and a thistle, 31mm, 6.45g (Platt I, p.150, type A; MI I, 282/90; E 134a). About extremely fine, attractively toned, rare
£800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: R.W. Cochran-Patrick Collection, Sotheby Auction, 8 November, 1949, lot 38 (part); C.H. Hartman Collection, Glendining Auction, 27 May 1957, lot 215 (part); N. Asherson Collection, Spink Auction 6, 10-11 October 1979, lot 121; English Commemorative Medals, the Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 111, 21 November 1995, lot 297.

Struck to commemorate the end of the First Bishops’ War (May-June 1639), which closed with the Treaty of Berwick