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Auction 22007  18 Oct 2022
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Lot 755

Starting price: 700 GBP
Price realized: 3000 GBP
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Congress of the Allies at The Hague, AR Medal, 1691, by P. H. Müller and F. Kleinert, INGENTES ANIMO, DIGNAS IOVE CONCIPIT IRAS CONCILIUMQVE VOCAT•, Jupiter, as William III, presiding in the midst of the gods, seated in council, CONVENTUS FOEDERAT • PRINCIP • PRAESIDE GUILLIELMO III • R • BRIT HAGAE COMIT • CELEBR • 1691 in exergue in four lines, rev. CONSILIO CONCORDIA ET FORTITVDINE •, Courage and Concord, standing before Prudence, clasp hands above an altar inscribed SAL• PVBL S•, REX REGVM CONSVLTA DEVS FORTVNET VBIQVE! ••• (FK) ••• on edge, 50mm, 44.44g (Eimer 334; MI ii 16/182; van Loon IV, 41; Harding 23 this medal), a handful of very faint contact marks to the obverse field, otherwise with rich ochre cabinet toning and some lustre, all relief detail most handsomely struck-up, good extremely fine and rare.
Unusually, this medal does not carry a profile of William. Instead it depicts the gods in conference, led by Jupiter.

Estimate: £800 - £1000
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