Description

Charles II. 1660-1685. Cast Silver Medal n. d. (1662), 2.18 g. Badge, Marriage. Unsigned. Crowned bust dividing C R, both letters crowned. PACE . TRIVMPHANS. Rv. Bust of Catharine of Braganza, left crown. FVTVRI SPES. Plain edge. 20.4 x 29.1 mm. Eimer -. MI i 484/97. Fast sehr schön / About Very Fine. Zeitgenössischer Guss mit Henkel / Contemporary cast with loop.

From the auction Adolph Hess AG 259, Zurich, May 1990, lot 1083.

The Marriage Treaty, or Anglo-Portuguese Treaty, was a treaty of alliance that was agreed between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Portugal and concluded on 23 June 1661.
It led to the marriage of Charles II of England and Catherine of Braganza, the daughter of John IV of Portugal. It was a marriage of state, as was common in the era. The treaty also renewed the medieval Anglo-Portuguese Alliance of 1386.