Description

Charles I. 1625-1649. Cast Silver Medal 1648, 10.61 g. Oxford Memorial Medal. Unsigned. An altar inscribed P.M. ACAD. OXON., dividing the date 1648. Rv. Inscription in four lines: DEO, Ecclefiæ, Principi Victima. Plain edge. 29.6 mm. Eimer 165. MI i 348/205. Sehr schön / Very Fine. Zeitgenössischer, etwas überarbeiteter Guss, mit Originalhenkel / Contemporary slightly tooled cast, with original loop attached.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, May 1997, lot 3339.

This medal was presented to members of the academic community of Oxford who suffered at the hands of the Parliamentarians. Oxford was the principal city of Charles I and his army for four years of the Civil War, despite the city falling to the parliamentarians the city’s occupants remained supporters of the royalist cause which led to the dismissal of many academics who refused to denounce the King.