 William and Mary. Coronation medal, 1689. Unsigned. MI.25. Silver. 35.9mm. 260.3 gns. 2.0mm thick at center. Busts right (Obverse 1: leaves point to base of A; MARIA narrow; break from rim to left side second A to curls); Jupiter thundering at Phaeton (Reverse A: 9 in 1689 under first 1 in 11 AP; GVR wide). Fine to Very Fine. Neatly holed. The portrait of Cherokee leader Cunne Shote, painted in London in 1762 and now in the collection of the Gilcrease Museum, shows him wearing one of these around his neck alongside an Anne accession medal and above a George I gorget.
Ex A.H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd. on July 2, 1971.
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