Battle of Blenheim

CNG 90, Lot: 2638. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. STUART. François-Eugène de Savoie, military strategist. 1663-1736. AR Medal (37mm, 20.46 g, 12h). Battle on Blenheim. By G. Hautsch. Dated 1704. EVGENIVS FRANC · DVX SAB · CÆS · EXER · GENER · COMM ·, armored bust right, wearing Order of the Golden Fleece / GENII VIRTVTE BONI · II · REG · 19 · (by the influence of the good angel, –adapted from II Kings, xix), Angel flying right over battlefield, wielding flaming sword and destroying army of Sennacherib; in four lines in exergue, GALLIS BAVARISQ · CÆSIS/TALLARDO CUM X · MILI/AD HOCHSTAD · CAPT/1704 · (the French and Bavarians having been slain, Tallard with 10,000 soldiers is taken at Hochstädt). Edge: + GLORIA AD TIBISCVM HVNGARIÆ PARTA · RENOVATVR AD DANVBIVM GERMANIÆ · (the glory, acquired on the Theiss in Hungary, is renewed on the Danube in Germany). MI 258/53; Eimer 408. EF, attractively toned.