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Medal - Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
| Location | England
(United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown
Dependencies) |
| Year | 1678 |
| Type | Commemorative medals/Personality or portrait
medal |
| Composition | Silver |
| Weight | 30.14 g |
| Diameter | 39 mm |
| Thickness | |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Edge | Inscribed Script: Latin Lettering: CERVICE . FRACTA . FIDEM . SVSTVLIT . ATLAS . XNS. 1678 |
| Period | |
| Notice | George Bower |
| Reference(s) | Eimer#257a |
| Obverse description | Bust of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey facing right with two hands strangling him with his own cravat |
| Obverse lettering | MORIENDO • RESTITVIT • REM • E •
GODFREY
(Translation: Edmundbury Godfrey by his death restablished the State) |
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Reverse description | Green strangling Godfrey in the presence of the Pope blessing the murderer and holding up a sealded document |
| Reverse lettering | TANTVM•VM•RELLIGIO•POTVIT
BVLLO
(Translation: Such could religion do) |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Engraver | |
| Mintage | ND (1678) - -
|
| Catalog ID | 3743827870 |
| Comments | |
