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JAN SMELTZING (worked from c.1684) - Receive artist alerts » - More items from this artist »
William and Mary silver anti- Stuart coronation medal (c. 1689 Holland)
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Medium
Silver
Diameter1.50inch ( 3.81 cm)
ConditionExtremely Fine, particularly on the reverse
Description / Expertise
Silver anti-Stuart propaganda medal struck in Holland for the coronation of William and Mary.
Obverse:- Conjoined busts of William and Mary, looking right. Both are laureate with no drapery, he with hair long.
Legend: GULIELM : R . MARIA REGINA . F.D.P.A. (William King, Mary Queen, Defenders of the Faith, pious, august). Below, I..S. for Jan Smeltzing.
Reverse:- An eagle on a cliff ejecting one eaglet from a nest and retaining two. Meridian sun and distant fleet.
Legend: NON PATITUR SUPPOSITITIOS. (It does not suffer changelings).
Exergue: IURE REGNI VINDIC : MDCLXXXIX. (The rights of the kingdom vindicated, 1689).
See Medallic Illustrations Vol. I, p.664/29.
England, as an eagle, ejects the son of James II for his imputed intrusion and retains the Princesses Mary and Anne, so vindicating the rights of the kingdom by preserving the succession in the true line. In 1885, Medallic Illustrations rated this medal as rare and it is hardly ever seen to-day.
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