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Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition

Volume 2, Plates 41 — 55

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Plate 1.43 of Vetusta Monumenta depicts one seal and seven coins struck in France and Flanders by English princes (and a pretender) from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries: the golden seal of Edmund, King of Sicily (c. 1254-1261), a royal of Edward the Black Prince (c. 1364), a chaise of Edward the Black Prince (c. 1363), a salute of Henry VI (c. 1423), an angelot of Henry VI (c. 1427), a rose noble of Henry VII (c. 1485-1489), a silver jeton of Perkin Warbeck, Pretender (c. 1494), and a Tournay groat of Henry VIII (c. 1514). Engraving by George Vertue after his own drawings. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1734. Current locations: the golden seal of Edmund, King of Sicily is in the British Museum (OA.3017) in London, UK. The locations of the seven specific coins here engraved have not been identified.
Plates 1.53-1.54 of Vetusta Monumenta depict sixteen seals dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Most of the seals were held in the Office of the Duchy of Lancaster, but a few were held in the Augmentation Office at Westminster. Engravings by George Vertue after his own drawings. 427 x 252 mm and 426 x 253 mm. Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1738. Current locations: Most of the seals here depicted are in the National Archives, Kew, UK; a few may be in the Westminster Abbey Muniment Collection, London, UK.