The Stewart Society - 250th Anniversary of the '45 Rising

Reverse

The reverse has The Stewart Society´s name and arms, together with the dates 1745-1995.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
THE STEWART SOCIETY
JUSTITIA ET VERITAS
1745 - 1995

Translation: JUSTICE AND TRUTH

Edge

Plain

Comment

Sponsor´s Mark of Walter H. Willson is visible below Glenfinnan Monument on the obverse.

Fineness (Purity) Mark is visible below Glenfinnan Monument on the obverse.


Edinburgh Assay Office Mark is visible below the Glenfinnan Monument on the obverse.






Assay offices are institutions set up to assay (test the purity of) precious metals. This is often done to protect consumers from buying fake items.

This medal was specially commissioned by The Stewart Society to commemorate the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Jacobite Rising of 1745. It depicts, on the obverse, a Jacobite on the left, a redcoat on the right and the Glenfinnan Monument between them in the centre. The reverse has The Stewart Society´s name and arms, together with the dates 1745-1995.
The medal has been struck in three editions, 200 in bronze, 150 in silver and only 10 in silver-gilt: the bronze edition has been prepared to the highest standard by a specialist craftsmen. The silver edition, equally well finished, has been struck in Britannia Standard silver (95.8% silver) instead of the usual Sterling Standard (only 92.5% silver) and has been marked accordingly at the Edinburgh Assay Office, under the personal superintendence of Mr. Robert Williamson, the then Assay Master. There is also a very limited edition in silver-gilt, of which only ten have been, or ever will be, made; the silver-gilt edition was sold out immediately.
Immediately below the Glenfinnan Monument, in the case of the silver and silver-gilt editions, is punched the Edinburgh Hallmark for Britannia Standard silver for 1995, together with the sponsor´s mark of Walter H. Willson, a highly-skilled and highly-respected family firm of silversmiths which has a long connection with the production of medals and other specialist work. The Society is grateful to Mrs. Michael Rossi of Walter H. Willson for her part in the production of this fine medal, one of the best her firm has produced.

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Price

Date	Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
1995	150	-	-	-	-	-	-

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