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Netherlands, large cast silver medal, Egbert Meeuwszoon Kortenaer, dated 1665 (struck 1938), by J.J. van Goor, marked ZILVER on edge. KB-1236. 168.64 grams; 68.8mm. High-relief portrait of Admiral Kortenaer above cannon with ships behind under legend EGBERT. MEEUWSZOON. KORTENAER, incuse signature J.J.v.Goor at bottom; reverse with sailing ship between two shields, harbor in background, OB.13.JVNI.1665. below, all within long legend (with dots between words) DE HELT DER MAAS VERMINKT AAN OOG EN RECHTERHANT EN ECHTER T OOG VAN T ROER DE VUIST VAN T VADERLAND. Thick and heavy, with toned antique finish, AU or better, rare in silver. Kortenaer was a Dutch naval hero famous for having lost his right arm and right eye (mentioned in the legend, from a poem on his grave in Rotterdam) in the Battle of Dungeness of 1652 (during the First Ango-Dutch War), the date 1665 being the year of his death.
($300-450)