SINCONA Auction 96
SINCONA British Collection - Part 6
(British Gold and Silver Medals)
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| Starting price | 2,500 CHF |
| Opening bid | 2,500 CHF |
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Description
Philip and Mary, 1554-1558. Cast Silver Medal n. d. (c. 1555), 104.17 g. Mary I. By Jacopo da Trezzo. Half-length figure of Mary, wearing a veiled coif and draped. MARIA . I. REG . ANGL . FRANC . ET . HIB . FIDEI . DEFENSATRIX . Below, IAC . TREZ. Rv. Seated female figure applies a torch to a pile of arms before a temple and holds aloft palm and olive-branches. CECIS VISVS TIMIDIS . QVIES . Plain edge. 64.1 mm. Eimer 33. MI i 72/20. van Loon I, 10,5. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1556-5. Sehr selten in dieser Qualität / Very rare in this quality. Vorzüglich-FDC / About Uncirculated. Prachtvoller, fein ziselierter zeitgenössischer Guss / Extraordinary sharp contemporary cast. Stiftloch im Rand / Drilled hole in edge.
Mary I (18 February 1516 - 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She made vigorous attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII.
Philip II (21 May 1527 - 13 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent, was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He was also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen Mary I in 1554 until her death in 1558. Furthermore, he was Duke of Milan from 1540. From 1555 onwards, he was Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.