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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 8215487, member: 12789&quot;][USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] Pray share, is there anything you don&#039;t collect?&nbsp; Your royal medals are fantastic!&nbsp; I&#039;ve wanted to foray into the Young Victoria medals sometime, also the commemorative jubilee medals.&nbsp; It is a shame about the cases/boxes - I do actively collect some medals from the late 19th and early 20th century myself and only want them with original boxes and paperwork and of course uncleaned.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The real unfortunately overlooked areas are the so-called &quot;Memorial Plaques&quot; of 1918-19 that were created in memory of Britain&#039;s soldiers that sacrificed their lives in WWI.&nbsp; Most of them are missing the box, the paperwork and a lot of the medals have been found in dumps, the Thames etc.&nbsp; The one I own was sent by representatives of King George V to the soldiers family in Oregon USA in 1919 - all original with the lettre, the card from the king and the envelope it was posted in.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to our regularly scheduled topic:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1441982[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A fascinating memento from Scottish and British history, this AR medal by Nicholas Briot was struck in 1633 to commemorate Charles I&#039;s very belated Scottish coronation that year. His coronation should have been much earlier, he ascended the throne in 1625, but he carelessly delayed said coronation until finally giving into demands that it be done in 1633. His introduction of Anglican liturgy into the coronation ceremony did little to endear him to his Scottish subjects, and things went decidedly sour thereafter. On his return trip to London his baggage including many crown jewels were lost in the Firth of Forth, just off of Burntisland.&nbsp; The treasure has still never been located. Subsequently alleged witches were brought to trial in London, on charges of causing the shipwreck. Things went down for Charles I from there on, both in Scotland and in England.</p><p><br /></p><p>This lovely medal, with a lifelike portrait of the monarch, was commissioned to Nicholas Briot, a famous and skilled coiner. This medal was struck in a screw press, and is actually much better detailed as a result. One of these medals was struck piedfort in gold, which was presented to the King, he kept it as a pocket piece until his death in 1649. The silver examples like this one were thrown by the king to the crowds at the coronation ceremony.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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