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The Dutch Republic. Zealand. al (Silver, 53mm, 47.76 g 12), on the renewal of the triple alliance between Great Britain, France and the Dutch Republic, by G. van Bylaer, 1609. xAxDOMINOxFACTVMx ESTxISTVDx (=this is the Lord's doing, Psal. cxviii, 23) Hand of God emerging from the clouds and holding cords binding the arms of France, England, and the Dutch Republic. Rev. ORD.FŒD. BELG. / A.REGE HISP.ET.ARC / HID.LIBERI. AGNITI / POST BEL. CONT.XLII.AN / INDVCIAS PACISCVNTVR / INTERV. REGVM. GAL.ET / MAG.BRIT.ET CVM / IISDEM FOEDVS / RENOVANT / A°.CI?.I? .CIX (=The United States of Belgium, acknowledged to be independent by the King of Spain and the Archduke, after an uninterrupted war of forty-two years, conclude a truce by the intervention of the Kings of France and Great Britain, and renew with those powers a treaty of alliance, 1609). Eimer 87a. MI, I, p.197, 22. PiN 59. Van Loon II, p. 50, i. Attractive and toned. Extremely fine.