MI 330/173.
35mm. Cast bronze. 15.07g. By Abraham Simon.
Obverse with bust of Erskine, reverse with '1647 CAR ÆRESKINVS EQV ÆT 30', although worn.
Pierced twice for suspension. Almost certainly contemporary and very rare.
Ex Christopher Foley Collection, Woolley & Wallis, 16/10/2024 (lot 280).
MI lists a single specimen in gold and two others, both silver. The date of Sir Charles Erskine's birth is shown elsewhere as 1611 (not 1617 as implied by the medal). He was the 4th son of John, 8th Earl of Mar and married Mary Hope in 1639. In 1645 he was a commissioner negotiating the Treaty of Uxbridge, a significant but abortive negotiation to try to end the First Civil War. In the same year he also served as a Commissioner for Scotland at the Westminster Assembly of Divines the purpose of which was to restructure the Church of England.