Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne (claiming to be 
Richard, Duke of York, one of the "Princes in the tower"). 
Continental mint, possibly Flanders. Coin or medallic jeton, 3.77g. 1494.

DOMINE SALVVM FAC REGEM, mintmark lion or leopard, crowned arms of England with crowned lis and rose at sides, within tressure.
MANI TECKEL PHARES 1494 around crown above lis and lion, rose below, all within tressure. 
North 1758.
Extremely rare.

On November 23rd, 1499, Perkin Warbeck was drawn on a hurdle 
from the Tower to Tyburn to be hanged. He died, not for 
pretending to be a Yorkist prince, but because of a plot to 
overthrow Henry VII, a plot which also cost the life of the 
last Plantagenet, Edward, Earl of Warwick.
MANI TECKEL PHARES is a version of the writing on the wall 
at Belshazzar's feast, a seeming threat to Henry VII. 
Although Warbeck's "invasion" took place in July 1495, it had been planned in 1494 and was upset by the arrest and execution of his supporter Stanley, who was in the king's 
service.

With permission of Spink auction 11039, Lot 243, Oct. 2011.