James II and Mary of Modena

James II and Mary of Modena, The Spanish Wreck Recovered, silver medal, 1687, a modern restrike, by D. F. Payne after George Bower, 1971, for the Turks and Caicos Islands, conjoined busts right, rev., the salvage operation, SEMPER TIBI PENDEAT HAMUS, 54mm (cf MI 619/33; Eim 285, note; cf MH 71; cf Betts 67), numbered on edge 223. Mint state.

Provenance: Bt eBay, September 2010. The medal issued by the Crown Agents in a limited edition of 1000.