North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

I: Briot, Warin and Rawlins, England, Charles II, before 1660 (?), a cast and chased silver Royalist badge, unsigned [by T. Rawlins or T. Simon], young crowned bust right, rev. crowned arms within Garter between c r, in imitation of engraving, 38 x 30mm, 5.76g (Platt II, p.354; MI I, 444/19; E 204). Very fine, rare; with integral loop and ring for suspension £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The North Yorkshire Moors Collection of British Coins.

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Provenance: SNC May 2011 (CM 1368).

This is a high quality youthful bust of the King, far superior to the general badges of the period. If made during the Interregnum then it would have been by Rawlins, but if made c. 1660 it could have been by Simon, simply because of the quality of the portraiture. Platt refers to it as the ‘restoration badge’, without further comment