Titus Oates and the Popish Plot

Titus Oates and the Popish Plot, small copper / bronze portrait medal commemorating the Popish Plot, 1678, bust three quarters -left, rev., a man spies on the King, walking by a pond (in St. James's Park), 18.5mm (MI 580/253). Very fine and extremely rare.

Provenance: Frank Ernest Macfadyen [Newcastle-on-Tyne] Collection, Sotheby, 15-16 July, 1907 (lot 227), sold with collector's ticket; Bt D. Fearon, January, 2011.