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The Jacobite Cause

Triton XVII, Lot: 1542. Estimate $400.
Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. James Francis Edward Stuart. Pretender, 1701-1766. AR Medal (50 mm, 49.84 g, 12h). Commemorating the Support of James Francis Edward Stuart, “The Old Pretender” Against George I Following The Rising of 1719. Of Italian manufacture. By. O. Hameranus. Dated 1721 (in Roman numerals). VNICA SALVS, draped and cuirassed bust of James right / QVID • GRAVIVS • CAPTA, Britannia seated right, in attitude of mourning as horse of Hannover tramples lion (England) and unicorn (Scotland); to right, three soldiers plundering; in background, view of London; MDCCXXI in exergue. MI 454/63; Eimer 493. EF, toned. Rare.


From the Jonathan H. Kagan Collection.