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Charles II. 1660-1685. Gold Medal n. d. (1660), 38.20 g. Restoration, 'Invidia Maior'. By G. Bower. Bust, laureate, armoured and draped. CAROLVS . II . D . G . MAG BRI . FRAN . ET . HIB . REX. Rv. Pallas seated, pierces Envy with her spear and points to heaven. INVIDIA MAIOR. Plain edge. 35.1 mm. Eimer 216. MI i 459/52. van Loon II, 461. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1660-33. Von grösster Seltenheit / Of the highest rarity. Gutes vorzüglich / About Uncirculated.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, November 2005, lot CM0954.

Charles II (29 May 1630 - 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685.
He was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of France. After Charles I's execution at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War, the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649.

The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement of the Stuart monarchy in England, Scotland, and Ireland in May 1660. It replaced the Commonwealth of England.