medal
- Museum number
- M.7258
- Description
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Oval silver medal. Very fine cast, smoothed by chasing; rings for suspension. (whole)
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Bust of Charles I, left, laureate, hair long, in armour with lion's head on shoulder, medal suspended to a chain, and mantle festooned upon the breast. (obverse)
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Bust of Henrietta Maria, left, hair flat at the top, curly at the sides, drawn through a small coronet behind, and tied into a bow, pearl necklace and pendant, figured bodice with brooch in front, bust terminated in drapery. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1649 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 32.000 millimetres
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Width: 26.000 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Rare.
This medal sometimes occurs with neat floral and corded borders on both sides.
This medal was a badge evidently intended to be worn about the person of friends or partisans of the monarch. They are of various sizes and workmanship, and were executed at various times; some evidently worn as ornamental or honourable decorations conferred for services performed, others to be concealed as tacit memorials of the royal person or cause, where an open avowal of such attachment would have been troublesome or dangerous to the wearer.
See Numismatic Chronicle, The, and Journal of the Numismatic Society, London, XIII. Pl. i. 9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Memorial of Charles I
- Acquisition date
- 1956
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7258
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (355) (218)