A GROUP OF BRITISH ROYAL GOLD MEDALS
Great Britain, England, Charles II, Peace of Breda (1667), 56mm, 4.5oz, by Jan Roettier, wreathed bust of Charles II right, rev., Brittania seated right, surveying the British fleet (MI, plate LIV, 4; cf Fearon 118.2), about very fine with surface marks and edge bumps, nevertheless a spectacular and rare medal
Details
Great Britain, England, Charles II, Peace of Breda (1667), 56mm, 4.5oz, by Jan Roettier, wreathed bust of Charles II right, rev., Brittania seated right, surveying the British fleet (MI, plate LIV, 4; cf Fearon 118.2), about very fine with surface marks and edge bumps, nevertheless a spectacular and rare medal
Further details
Medallic Illustrations notes that the figure of Britannia is "a portrait of Mrs. Stuart, afterwards Duchess of Richmond, who was the fashionable beauty at Court at this time" and goes on to quote Samuel Pepys' diary from February 25, 1667; "At my goldsmiths's did observe the King's new medall, where in little there is Mrs. Stewart's face as well done as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think; and a pretty thing it is that he should choose her face to represent Brittania by."