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To mark the importance of the late events, his majesty caused two medals to be struck; one of himself, with the usual inscription, and the motto, _Aras et sceptra tuemur_; the other of Monmouth, without any inscription. On the reverse of the former were represented the two headless trunks of his lately vanquished enemies, with other circumstances in the same taste and spirit, the motto, _Ambitio malesuada ruit_; on that of the latter appeared a young man falling in the attempt to climb a rock with three crowns on it, under which was the insulting motto, _Superi risere_.