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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 4971812, member: 110350"]Here's one more "modern" commemorative medal with a reverse design using classical motifs -- although I don't know if the particular myth portrayed on this medal was ever depicted on an ancient coin. I remember reading it in childhood, though! England, William & Mary Official AR Coronation Medal, 1689, by J. Roettier. Obv.: Busts of William & Mary right, conjoined and draped, he laureate, GVLIELMVS. ET. MARIA. REX. ET. REGINA./ Rev.: Jove hurls thunder from cloud at Phaethon, falling from his chariot, the earth in flames at left, NE TOTVS ABSVMATVR [That it may not all be consumed]; in exergue, INAVGVRAT. II AP 1690.  MI I, 662/25 [Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I p. 662, No. 25 (1885, reprinted 1969)]; Eimer 312 & Plate 40 [Eimer, C.., British Commemorative Medals and their Values (2nd ed. 2010)]. 35 mm., 17.07 g. [ATTACH=full]1194905[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1194907[/ATTACH] This medal is quite hard to find in decent condition; I think this is a rather nice example, despite the cleaning scratches and the ding on the rim of the reverse a little after 3 o'clock.  I would speculate, without having read it anywhere, that the figure of Phaethon struck from his chariot was intended to represent James II in his flight.[/QUOTE]