medal
- Museum number
- M.7265
- Description
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Oval silver medal with engrailed border on both sides. Cast and chased, and with rings for suspension. (whole)
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Bust of Charles I, left, lovelock on left shoulder, in falling lace collar, armour, and scarf across the breast. (obverse)
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Bust of Henrietta Maria, left, crowned, in pearl necklace and ear-ring, lace collar, stiff and erect, and bodice ornamented with jewels. (reverse)
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 22.000 millimetres
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Width: 17.000 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Not rare.
Hawkins states (1885): “The two sides of one of these badges are fixed to the covers of a New Testament in the British Museum.”
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. ii. 15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Memorial to the Royal Family
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7265
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: H176
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (357) (224)