Watch List notes:

Commemorative Medals, Charles II, the Restoration and embarkation at Scheveningen, large hollow embossed and chased silver medal [1660], a mule of medals by Pieter van Abeele and (reverse) Wouter Muller, facing bust of Charles II with flowing hair, in plain collar with medal on ribband, CAROLVS D II, fields richly decorated with floral design, rev. Fame with her trumpet flies above starboard profile of a warship in full sail, blown by cherubic winds, main-mast flag punched with X within wreath, mermen below blow conch-shell trumpets, 69.5mm. (obv. MI.449/33; Frederiks 23; rev. MI.413/50; Frederiks 15a; Eimer 190; MH. (Netherlands) 550; vL.II 383, 1 [371,1]; Pax 207), edge with expected 'blow hole', at one time cleaned (though not polished), good very fine, seemingly unpublished and perhaps unique
Pieter van Abeele (1608-1684).
Wouter Muller (medals known 1653-1688).
The medal is most unusual in combining the work of two Amsterdam medallists and medals manufactured six years apart. The reverse has been adapted, the outer legend (in any case unsuitable for this occasion) has vanished to reduce the diameter so that it may fit with the obverse. The date, which appeared below an exergual line beneath the mermen, has also been embossed over. The flag has been given some definition. The people standing on deck have more definition and one, the King perhaps, clearly waves his hat.
(1500-2000)