JAN SMELTZING (worked from c.1684)

William and Mary silver anti- Stuart coronation medal (c. 1689 Holland)

William and Mary silver anti- Stuart coronation medal (Holland)

Item Medium Description

Silver

Item Diameter

1.50inch

Converted Diameter

3.81 cm

Current Item Condition

Extremely Fine, particularly on the reverse

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

Silver anti-Stuart propaganda medal struck in Holland for the coronation of William and Mary.
Obverse:- Conjoined busts of William and Mary, looking right. Both are laureate with no drapery, he with hair long.
Legend: GULIELM : R . MARIA REGINA . F.D.P.A. (William King, Mary Queen, Defenders of the Faith, pious, august). Below, I..S. for Jan Smeltzing.
Reverse:- An eagle on a cliff ejecting one eaglet from a nest and retaining two. Meridian sun and distant fleet.
Legend: NON PATITUR SUPPOSITITIOS. (It does not suffer changelings).
Exergue: IURE REGNI VINDIC : MDCLXXXIX. (The rights of the kingdom vindicated, 1689).

See Medallic Illustrations Vol. I, p.664/29.

England, as an eagle, ejects the son of James II for his imputed intrusion and retains the Princesses Mary and Anne, so vindicating the rights of the kingdom by preserving the succession in the true line. In 1885, Medallic Illustrations rated this medal as rare and it is hardly ever seen to-day.

SMELTZING

Type	Artist/Maker
Country of origin	England
Started working	Circa 1684

The workmanship of Jan Smeltzing's medals was highly esteemed. He worked in Leyden from about 1684. However, in 1690 he was compelled to seek temporary refuge in France due to certain satirical medals he had made and found employment with the Mint in Paris.

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