426, Lot: 660. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART. temp. James I. 1603-1625. CU Jeton (29mm, 5.64 g, 11h). 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 DORMITASTI ANTISTES IACOBI (you, the keeper of James, have not slept, –adapted from Psalms), rayed tetragrammaton within intertwined wreath of thorns. MI 196/19; Eimer 86. Fine, rough brown surfaces, traces of hard green.