The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals

William Juxon, Bishop of London, 1637, a silver medal by N. Briot, conjoined arms of the See of London and those of Juxon, mitre above, gvil lond epvs et angliæ thesavr, rev. non dormit qvi cvstodit, hand issuing from cloud holding a crozier on which stands a stork with a pebble in one claw, view of London beyond, with old St Paul’s to left, 28mm, 6.06g (MI I, 279/85; Jones 169). Very fine, toned, rare £400-£600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Dr Jerome J. Platt Collection of 17th-Century Medals.

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C. Foley Collection, Woolley & Wallis Auction (Salisbury), 16 October 2014, lot 241

William Juxon (1582-1663) was Bishop of London from 1633-49. He had been appointed Lord High Treasurer in 1635 and MI suggests this counter could have been used in the Treasury. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty from 1636 to 1638 and attended Charles I on the scaffold. Appointed Archbishop of Canterbury following the Restoration, he crowned Charles II at the Coronation in 1661.