North Yorkshire Moors Collection, Part IV: Coins and Medals

XVI: Later Cromwell Medals, Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax, after 1658 (?), a struck silver medal, c. 1740, unsigned (possibly by J. Stuart), after T. Simon, bust of Cromwell left, olivar d gr ang sco hib & prot, rev. genneral fairfax, bust of Fairfax left, 30mm, 17.38g (Platt I, pp.343-4, type A; cf. MI I, 411/48; Vertue pl. xi, 50). Extremely fine and toned, excessively rare £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: From an un-named Sotheby Auction; R.C. and O.M.W. Warner Collection; R.E. Ockenden Collection [from O.M.W.W. 1964]; bt R.E.O.

This is an unpublished later copy of the ‘original’, represented by single specimens in the British and Hunterian Museums, by the same author who made various other copies in the 18th century, either as commercial ventures or by special order for connoisseurs of the day