Great Britain Medal / Token ca. 1710 Queen Anne. Milled Brass Medal or Token by Johann Jacob Dietzel. UNC

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1710, Great Britain, Queen Anne. Milled Brass Medal or Token by Johann Jacob Dietzel.

Mint Year: ca. 1710
Mint Place: Nurnberg
Medallist: Johann Jacob Dietzel (active 1710-1740, I.D.R.)
Denomination: Medal - Queen Anne / The Church of England as the foundation of the kingdom's peace.
Reference: Medallic Illustrations 2 (1885) p 432.28., British Museum M.8147. Excessively rare in this condition!
Condition: Lightly bent (as made by the roller dies of Nurnberg), minor discoloration spots, otherwise brilliant uncirculated with sharp details ans striking mint luster!
Diameter: 25mm
Weight: 4.38gm
Material: Brass

Obverse: Draped Bust of Queen Anne of England left. Medallist´s signature (I.iD.R.&)
Legend: ANNA . D . G . MAG . - BR . FR . ET . HIB . R .


Reverse: A church with three gates and three towers.
Legend: FVNDAMENTVM QVIETIS NOSTRAE. ("The foundation of our repose.")
Exergue: ECCLES . ANGL ("The Church of England.")



This medalet or counter was struck at Nuremberg, the great manufactory of such pieces. It recognizes the Church of England as the foundation of the kingdom's peace. The maintenance of the Protestant religion was the principle upon which the Queen's claim was established, to the exclusion of her brother and other branches of her family. Similar small counters occur of her successor George I. (Medallic Illustrations 2 / Medallic illustrations of the history of Great Britain and Ireland to the death of George II. p412.277.)



Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) became Queen regnant of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702, succeeding her brother-in-law and cousin, William III of England and II of Scotland. Her Catholic father, James II and VII, was deemed by the English Parliament to have abdicated when he was forced to retreat to France during the Glorious Revolution of 1688/9; her brother-in-law and her sister then became joint monarchs as William III & II and Mary II. After Mary's death in 1694, William continued as sole monarch until his own death in 1702.

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