Louis XIV

Louis XIV, James II received by Louis XIV, French cast bronze medal, 1689, by Henri Roussel, laureate but right, LVDOVICVS MAGNVS REX CHRISTIANISSIMVS, rev., legend within wreath of roses and pomegranates, OB REGEM REGINAM ET PRINCIPEM MAGNÆ BRITANNIÆ SERVATOS, 66.5mm (MI 654/12; Woolf 6.3b; vL III, 372). A cast of good quality, especially so the obverse, good very fine.

The medal is a cast of a struck silver medal of which MI states, "This is one of the rarest medals of Louis XIV".

Provenance: Bt. C. Riley, May, 2009.