Description

Charles I. 1625-1649. Silver Medal n. d. (1649), 15.04 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 . Rv. Hand issuing from Heaven holds a celestial crown, sheep in a landscape below. VIRTVT . EX . ME . FORTVNAM EX . ALIJS. Plain edge. 34.8 mm. Eimer 162b. MI i 346/201. van Loon II, 320,3. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1649-3. Sehr selten / Very rare. Sehr schön / Very Fine. Leicht gereinigt / Lightly cleaned.

Purchased from S & B, Amersham, May 1992, lot M94.

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.