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ANCIENT, BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS715715 Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, 1678, Silver medal, by G. Bower, bust rightbeing strangled by his own cravat, MORIENDO. RESTITVIT. REM. E. GODFREY, rev. ECCLESIA.PERVERSA. TENET. FACIEM. DIABOLI, head of pope and the devil joined to form one face,edge inscribed, CERVICE. FRACTA. FIDEM. SVSTVLIT. ATLAS. XNS. 1678, 37mm. (MI i,578/250; Eimer 259a), toned, extremely fine £350-450716716 Coronation of James II, 1685, Silver medal by J. Roettier, laureate, draped bust ofJames II right, rev. laureate bust of Mary of Modena right, 45mm. (MI i, 606.8; Eimerobv. 273/rev. 276), die flaw at edge, toned, extremely fine £400-500717717 Archbishop Sancroft and the Seven Bishops, 1688, cast and chased Silver medal,by J. Smeltzing, clerically robed bust right, GVIL. SANCROFT. ARCHIEPISC. CANTVAR, 1688.,rev. seven medallions each containing the bust of one of the seven Bishops, stars in fields(MI i, 622/37; Eimer 288b), extremely fine £100-130WWW.SPINK.COM