Description

Charles I. 1625-1649. Gold Medal n. d. (1649), 96.73 g. Charles I. Death and Memorial. By J. and N. Roettier. Bust, armoured and draped. CAROL . D. G.M.B.F. ET . H. REX . & . GLOR . MEM . Below monogram R. Rv. Hand issuing from Heaven holds a celestial crown, below sheep in a landscape. VIRTVT . EX . ME . FORTVNAM EX . ALIJS. Plain edge. 50.2 mm. Eimer 162a. MI i 346/200. van Loon II, 320,2. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1649-2. Äusserst selten / Extremely rare. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Leicht berieben / Lightly polished.

From the auction Spink 166, London, lot 18.

Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War, leading to the capture and trial of Charles. On Saturday 27 January 1649, the parliamentarian High Court of Justice had declared Charles guilty of attempting to "uphold in himself an unlimited and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow the rights and liberties of the people" and sentenced him to death by beheading.

This medal is rarely offered in silver and is extremely rare in gold.