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Description: | TREASURE CASE : 2015 T176A complete gold touch-piece of James II dating to the period AD 1685 - 1688. SOLI DEO GLORIA reverse type St. Michael and the dragon. Mint of London.Such pieces formed part of the ceremony of 'Touching for the King's Evil' a ruitual during which English monarchs exercised their thaumaturgic gift of healing the disease scrofula. The afflicted received a memento in the form of a 'touch-piece', suspended on a white ribbon. The early Stuart monarchs (James I, Charles I) used gold coins (angels), pierced to take a ribbon. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, special non-monetary gold pieces were made for the ceremony.Obverse Description: Three-masted shipObverse Inscription: [----------------] ET HI REXReverse Description: St. Michael and the dragonReverse Inscription: SOLI DEO [GLORIA]As a gold medal with no monetary function, a touch-piece would fall within the purview of the Treasure Act and at least one has passed through the system in this way already. It is a type of object that fulfils the criteria of Treasure, according to the terms of the Act.See Woolf, N. (1979) 'The Sovereign Remedy: Touch Pieces and the Kings Evil', British Numismatic Society
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