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STUART. James III (The Old Pretender). 1688-1766. PB Trial Strike (29mm, 10.13 g). The Accession of James III(?). By N. Roettier. Struck circa 1701. IACOBUS · TERTIUS ·, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust left / Blank textured surface. Cf. Woolf 16:1 (for this die in a later state, restruck by Matthew Young with a 1716 pattern guinea die); cf. Eimer 379 (for similar type of 1699); cf. MI 202/516 (same). Pierced, scratches, a few light marks. Good VF. Extremely rare.
From the Alexander Christopher Collection.
This extraordinarily rare die was likely originally engraved for a medal on the accession of James III following the death of his father. No such medal was struck, however, and the die remained unused. In 1828, Matthew Young paired this die, now significantly rusted, with a reverse for a 1716 pattern shilling.
No definitively original examples are known to exist for any of Young’s various Jacobite restrikes, although one 1716 pattern crown and an accompanying copper striking in the National Museum of Scotland have been speculated as such (see Holmes, “A Jacobite Mystery: Thomas Coats’s 1716 Pattern Crown,” in NumCirc CXIII.4 [August 2005], p. 245-6). The state of the die used for this trial – lacking the die rust before the face, on the cheek, in the lower hair, and in the right field – clearly indicates that it was struck well before its circa 1828 reappearance. Accordingly, this piece is likely the sole original striking known of any of the dies used by Matthew Young.
Our thanks to Cameron Maclean at the University of Glasgow for help with cataloging this lot.
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