![(SCOTLAND.) [CROKER, John].](/photos/132/main/full_132.jpg "(SCOTLAND.) [CROKER, John].")
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Medal, c. 46 mm in diameter, with a fine bust of Queen Anne, crowned and draped, on the obverse, signed ‘J. C.’, and on the reverse a British shield with the garter, crowned, upon a pedestal, supported by a lion and a unicorn; in fine condition.
One of three medals struck on the occasion of the Act of Union, which received the royal assent on the 6th of March, 1707 and came into operation on the 1st of May of that year. The Union is indicated here by the impaling of the English and Scottish arms on the British shield, by the conjunction of the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew upon the shield held by the unicorn, and by a rose and thistle growing on the same stalk upon the lion’s shield. The engraver John Croker (born in Dresden) became assistant to Henry Harris, the chief engraver at the Royal Mint in 1697, having been appointed by Sir Isaac Newton (Master of the Mint), producing his first English medal in the same year. He succeeded as chief engraver in 1705, designing dies for all the gold and silver coins during the reigns of Anne and George I, plus many similar commemorative medals.
Christopher Eimer, British Commemorative Medals 424 (a different obverse die from that in the plate).
£800.00
(equal to approx. US$1265.34* or €991.57* for 19 May 2012)
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