medal
- Museum number
- M.7668
- Description
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Pewter medal. (whole)
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Bust of James II, right, laureate, hair short, no drapery. Star. (obverse)
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Lion crowned, couchant, with the paws upon the sceptre and globe. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1685
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 48.000 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Medallic Illustrations 1, published in 1885, states:
Rare.
This piece bears the Scottish motto; and is conformable to the Spirit of the King's letter on the opening of the Scottish Parliament, wherein he exhorts them against "those inhumain wretches all fanatical murtherers and assassins," and "to extirpate the desperate fanatical party." The Scottish Parliament, summoned by James, assembled 23 April, 1685, the day of the King's coronation. The English Parliament did not meet till 19 May following.
See Pinkerton, J., ‘The Medallic History of England to the Revolution’, London, 1790 (fol.), xxxvii. 5; Van Loon, Gerard, ‘Histoire Métallique des XVII. Provinces des Pays-Bas’, 5 vol. La Haye, 1732-1837 (fol) [There is also an edition in Dutch, but with different paging], III. 303; Lochner, Johann Hieronymus, ‘Samlung merkwürdiger Medaillen’, 8 vol., Nürnberg, 1737-1744, VII. 105.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Commemoration of: Opening of the Scottish Parliament
- Department
- Money and Medals
- Registration number
- M.7668
- C&M catalogue number
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MB1 (Medallic Illustrations 1) (607) (10)