Description

Charles II. 1660-1685. Cast Gold Medal n. d. (1660), 4.75 g. Royalist Badge. Charles II. Unsigned. Bust, crowned, armoured and draped. C R 2 in field. Floral border. Rv. Identical with obverse. Plain edge. 25.2 mm x 29 mm. Eimer 205 var. MI i 446/23. Sehr selten / Very rare. Sehr schön / Very Fine. Aus zwei einseitigen Abschlägen zusammengesetzt, zweimal gelocht / Struck on two thin pieces of metal, soldered together, pierced two times.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, July 1997, lot 399.
Purchased from Spink, London, December 1984, lot 107.

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.