395, Lot: 565. Estimate $100. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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STUART. temp. James I. 1603-1625. CU Jeton (29mm, 5.77 g, 4h). The Discovery and Failure of the Gunpowder Plot. Of uncertain Dutch manufacture. Dated 1605
in chronogram on reverse. (rosette) DETECTVS · QVI · LATVIT · S · C · (
the concealed one is discovered), snake (the Jesuits) coiled rightward, surrounded by roses (England) and lis (France) / (rosette) NON
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you, the keeper of James, have not slept, –adapted from Psalms), rayed name of God in Hebrew. MI 196/19; Eimer 86. Good VF, brown surfaces.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.