c.1615 James I Lady Arabella Stuart 51mm Cast medal

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MI 207/41.

51mm. Pewter. 21.72g. Unsigned.

Obverse with half length bust of Lady Arabella Stuart, reverse with legend within and around border.

About Very Fine and very rare. A medal of uncertain age but clearly with some real age to it.

A catalogue note for a similar medal sold by Dix Noonan Webb states the following: "The attribution to Lady Arbella (or Arabella) remains unconfirmed, but the sentiment expressed in the reverse inscription is thought to refer to the unhappy separation she endured from her husband, William Seymour, and her subsequent incarceration in the Tower, where she starved herself to death in 1615 at the age of 40."