Commemorating the Execution of Egmont and Horn

Triton XVII, Lot: 1360. Estimate $300. Sold for $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, temp. Unie van Utrecht. 1579-1581. Æ Rekenpenning (31mm, 5.98 g, 11h). Commemorating the Execution of Egmont and Horn in Brussels, 5 June 1568. Dated 1579. Battle between two horsemen above two fighting soldiers / Decapitated corpses of Egmont and Horn; above, heads impaled on pikes. Dugnoille 2778; Van Loon I 270. EF, attractive brown surfaces.