North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

XVI: Later Cromwell Medals, Cromwell, c. 1650, a uniface oval cast and chased (?) silver medal, c. 1740, after T. Simon, bust three-quarters right, hitherto hath the lord helped vs, 26 x 23mm, 6.06g (Vertue pl. xii, D; Platt I, p.332, type Y; MI I, 392/15). Very fine and toned, extremely rare £200-£300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: H. Montagu Collection, Sotheby Auction, 24-9 May 1897, lot 211 (part); R.C. and O.M.W. Warner Collection; R.E. Ockenden Collection [from O.M.W.W. 1964]; bt R.E.O.

Another specimen was in the Stucker collection (SNC June 1978, 8418). MI relates the master to this medal to Dunbar, because a unique fragment in lead in the British Museum (ex Hawkins) once had the word Dunbar visible behind the head, so it may imply a prototype which was never pursued or adopted