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Auction 12 22 May 2016
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MODERN COINS
A SPECIAL COLLECTION OF DUTCH AND DUTCH RELATED MEDALS
The Dutch Republic. Breda. 1590. Medal (Silver, 39mm, 19.22 g 12), on the liberation of Breda from the Spaniards; unsigned but by G. van Bylaer. (rosette). PARATI.VINCERE.AVT.MORI.4.MARTII.(rosette)/.INVICTI.ANIMI.PR (=the reward of invincible souls, prepared to win or die on
4 March) Troops disembarking from a canal barge filled with peat, within the walls of Breda. Rev. BREDA.A.SERVITVTE / HISPANA.VINDICATA / DVCTV. PRINCIPIS / MAVRITII.A. NASS: / A°.CI?.I?.XC (=Led by Prince Maurice of Nassau, Breda freed from Spanish captivity in the year 1580) Lion of Holland facing the arms of the Prince of Orange. Van Loon I, p. 403. Attractively toned. Extremely fine.
Ex World-Wide Coins of California XXVIII, 16 November 1995, 357 and F. Muller, 1 December 1913, 12 (with original ticket).
This commemorates the famous ruse of Prince Maurice's, in which a picked band of troops were smuggled into Breda by hiding them within a barge filled with peat. The barge was allowed through the water gate and the troops later got out, over-powered the Spanish guards and opened the main gates to the Dutch army.