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obverse a bust of King Chai'Jes in armour wearing a falling 

 lace collar and scarf across the chest, and on the reverse 

 the royal arms with the legend FLORENT CONCORDIA 

 REGNA. The dies were sunk by Thomas Rawlins, chief 

 engraver to the royal mint during the latter part of Charles's 

 reign, and it is the lai-gest of a set of patterns in gold and 

 silver struck shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. 

 In addition to the great value of this piece as a unique gold 

 pattern it has always been prized by collectors as especially 

 interesting on account of a more or less credible tiadition^. 

 handed down through many generations, that it was given to 

 Juxon, Bishop of London and Lord High Treasurer (and later 

 Archbishop of Canterbury) by King Charles himself on the 

 scaffold. In the middle of the last century this medal was 

 in the possession of a Miss Henrietta Gythens of Gloucester, 

 a descendant of Thos. Juxon, an elder brother of the Bishop. 

 This lady bequeathed the medal by Will to the Rev. James 

 Commeline, Vicar of Haresfield, in the following terms : — "and 

 whereas I am also possessed of a gold medal of King Charles 

 the First, which was given by his said Majesty King Charles 

 the First upon the scaffold to my great great Uncle, Arch- 

 bishop Juxon, now I hereby give and bequeath the said medal 

 to Mr. James Commeline." From Mr. Commeline it passed 

 to his son of the same name, Rector of Red Marley, who died 

 in 1834. In the following 3^ear it was sold by the son of the 

 preceding to Lieut.- Col. John Drummond, and from him it 

 passed successively through the cabinets of Mr. Cuft", Mr. 

 Thos. Brown, Mr. Edw. Wigan, Mr. S. Addington, into that 

 of the late Mr. H. Montagu. Owing to the liberality of a 

 private individual this unique pattern has been acquired for 

 a sum considerably less than that for which it was sold by 

 auction in November 1896, and it is now exhibited in the 

 Gold Ornament Room. 



Charles I. — A unique pattern for a gold Broad piece, by 

 the engraver Rawlins ; a proof gold Unite, m. m. Harp, from 

 the Brice collection ; a pattern Broad piece by Briot, date 

 1630 ; also a pattern Shilling by the same engraver with a^ 

 bust of the King in armour and bare-headed. 



Charles I. — A gold Unite (1645) of the Bristol mint. 

 From the Edmonds, Shepherd and Brice collections. 



Charles I. — A unique gold Half Unite (1644), struck at 

 Oxford with the "Declaration.'' 



Charles I. — Two silver pound pieces of 1643, struck at 

 Oxford and Shrewsbury, and two Half-pound pieces of 1642^, 

 also from the Shrewsbury Mint. 



Charles II. — An unpublished variety of the Five-Guinea 

 piece of 1669. 



0.125. F Charles 



