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Auction 16  17 Apr 2018
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Lot 594

Estimate: 2500 GBP
Price realized: 8000 GBP
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Commemorative Medals, Foreign Medals, Netherlands, Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567-1625), Stathouder (1585), Prince (1618), Naval Victories over the Spanish off Peru and Brazil, gilt-silver medal, 1624, by Jan van Bijlaer, bust three-quarters r., wearing decorative armour, sash, and ruff collar, within central medallion, legend in script, Mauritius D. G. Princeps Auricæ, Com: Naß: &c: Prov: confœ: Gub:, signed below truncation, wide border with clasped hands on arrows and arms of the seven United Provinces, rev. crowned oval shield of arms within Garter, wreath border, cartouche below inscribed 'Ie Maintiendray', dated below '16 Cum Privil 24', 68.5mm. (MI.231/91; vL.II, 155; MH.511; Eimer 103; Betts 22; cf. J. Ford, Part XIII, Stack's Auction, 16 Jan., 2006, lot 676), struck on a cast flan, a small flaw on obverse by the FRI on the FRISIA ribband at 7 o'clock, but a most pleasing example of this beautiful medal, extremely fine and rare
(2500-3000 GBP)
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