CNG 85, Lot: 1575. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART (ORANGE). William III. 1688-1702. AR Medal (48mm, 45.43 g, 12h). Landing at Torbay. By R. Arondeaux. Dated 1688. DEO VIN DICE IUSTITIA COMITE · (With God as Avenger; with Justice as Companion), William (as a Roman emperor) standing right, trampling upon Discord and holding sword and hand of Britannia standing left; to left, James II and Father Petre, carrying prince James, fleeing left; lighted altar between; to right, orange tree bearing British coat-of-arms and entwined with roses and thistles / CONTRA INFANTEM PERDITIONIS · (Against the infant of eternal damnation), troops disembarking from boats near fortified harbor; large fleet on horizon; EXPEDITIO NAUALIS PRO/LIBERTATE ANGLIÆ/MDCLXXXVIII in three lines in exergue. MI 639/65 (James II); Eimer 298. EF, lightly toned, underlying luster.

From a California Collection of British Historical Medals.

Another medal commemorating William's arrival in England and successive coronation with his wife Mary, this type exemplifies the English view of the Catholic church and the Pope, popularly looked upon as the Antichrist. James' confessor, Father Petre, was believed to be the source of his attempt to establish the Catholic church, while his son, the young Prince, was reported to be the son of a miller, therefore represented as such with a toy windmill.