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George II. 1727-1760. Silver Medal 1746, 29.81 g. Battle of Culloden. By M. Holtzhey. Bust, armoured and draped. GVIL . CVMBERL . DVX EXERCIT . M . BRIT . IMP. Rv. The Duke of Cumberland, as a Roman general, crowned by Victory, tramples upon a fallen foe; at his feet kneel two suppliant Highlanders; in the distance, the town of Inverness, and the Scottish army flying. RESTITVTORI QVIETIS. In exergue: REBELL . AD INNERIVM DEVICT . MDCCXLVI. Plain edge. 41.8 mm. Eimer -. MI ii 614/281. van Loon Suppl. 216. Saunders/Vanhoudt 216. Vorzüglich / Extremely Fine. Feine Patina / Nicely toned.

Purchased from Spink Numismatic Circular, London, March 1998, lot 1654.

The Battle of Culloden took place on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force commanded by the Duke of Cumberland, thereby ending the Jacobite rising of 1745. It was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, and took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe. It proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.