North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

X: Personal Medals by the Simon Brothers, John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, 1645, a cast silver medal by A. Simon, bust left wearing skull-cap, signed a s on truncation, no legend, rev. iohan com lovdovn svmmvs scotiæ cancellarivs in five lines, 36mm, 13.08g (Platt II, p.63, type A; MI I, 321/157; E 148a, and pl. 17, this piece illustrated). Surface crack by front of skull-cap, otherwise very fine and
very rare £800-£1,000

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

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Provenance: C. Humphris Collection, Morton & Eden Auction 4, 21 May 2003, lot 1153; C. Foley Collection, Woolley & Wallis Auction (Salisbury), 16 October 2014, lot 276.

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun (1598-1662), Covenanter, arrested for treason in 1640 but subsequently pardoned, was one of the Scottish commissioners who sought to mediate between the two sides in the Civil War, ultimately without success because King Charles refused to consider escaping the country while under the protection of those commissioners