285, Lot: 522. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. temp. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. CU Jeton (30mm, 5.18 g, 5h). Thanksgiving for the Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Of uncertain Dutch manufacture. Dated 1589. · TANDEM · BONA · CAVSA · TRIVMPHAT · 1589 (at length, the good cause triumphs), female figure seated left in carriage, holding large quill and open book inscribed with the Lord’s Prayer in Dutch / (rosette) · SI · NON · VIRIBVS · AT · CAVSA · POTIORES · (if not in strength, yet in our cause more powerful), young birds in nest at top of tree, defend themselves against a bird of prey; across field, BELLV NECESS (necessary war). MI 153/128; Eimer 63; van Loon I, p. 394. Good VF, rich brown patina. Rare.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular LXXXVII.3 (March 1979), no. 3083.