1076033 | GREAT BRITAIN. James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland. (Pretender, 1701-1766). 1710 AR Medal. PCGS MS62. By Norbert Röettiers. Edge: Plain. 38mm. 20.29gm. CVIVS – EST. Laureate bust, right; signed NR below / REDDITE. A fleet of ships surrounding the British isles indicated on each land mass as BRIT, HIB and SCOT. Eimer 449a; Med. Ill. 312/133; Woolf 23:1A.

On the Peace Negotiations between France and the allies held in Geertruidenberg during the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1713). Rare quality for this popular type; old collector's number in ink below bust.


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James Francis Edward was raised in continental Europe and was known as the Chevalier de St. George. After the death of his father, King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, in 1701, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish crowns as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland, with the support of his Jacobite followers and Louis XIV of France, a cousin of his father.

In 1715 he unsuccessfully attempted to gain the British and Irish thrones during the Jacobite uprising. A final attempt at restoration, the Jacobite rising of 1745, was led by his elder son Charles Edward Stuart (the Young Pretender). Following James's death in 1766, Charles Edward Stuart continued to claim the British and Irish crowns as part of the Jacobite succession. [Wikipedia].