Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot, bronze counter, 1605, Dutch, a snake gliding amongst lilies and roses, HE WHO CONCEALED HIMSELF IS DETECTED. BY ORDER OF THE SENATE, rev. the name JEHOVAH in Hebrew radiate with a crown of thorns and chronogrammatic date, THOU, THE KEEP OF JAMES HAS NOT SLEPT, 30 mm, (MI. 196/19). About extremely fine and scarce. £Sold
Struck by order of the Senate in Holland to commemorate this event and also the expulsion of the Jesuits from Holland whose intrigues in France and England are intimated by the snake amongst the roses and lilies.
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