medal
- Museum number
- M.7273
- Description
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Oval silver medal with wreath border on both sides. Cast, very slightly chased, and with rings for suspension. (whole)
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Bust of Charles I, right, hair long, in falling lace collar, doublet buttoned close, riband to suspend medal, and scarf across the breast. (obverse)
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Incuse, Royal arms, crowned, within the Garter. (reverse)
- Production date
- 17thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.000 millimetres
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Width: 29.500 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Not uncommon. Sometimes occurs with a wreath border 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, Pl. iii. 20.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Memorial to the Royal Family
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7273
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: H183
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (360) (231)