Triton XVII, Lot: 1536. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. STUART (Orange). William III & Mary. 1688-1694. Gilt AR Box Medal (49mm, 42.77 g). Commemorating the Allied Victory Against the French Fleet at La Hogue. Of Dutch manufacture. By P.H. Müller. Dated 1692 (in chronograph). NON ILLI IMPERIVM; SED MIHI SORTE DATVM •, Neptune toppling Louis XIV, holding trident, from his sea-chariot; naval battle in background; GULIELMO • III • M • BRIT • R •/OB IMPERIUM MARIS/ASSERT •/P • H • M • in four lines in exergue. Edge: * CONCASTIGATVS GALLORVM FASTVS ET ASTVS FLVCTIBVS, ET PVGNA FRACTVS ATROCE FRAGOR • (FK) / SE CONDET IN UNDAS •, Victory left on ornate galley; to right, cherubim holding crowned arms of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic; in background, sun setting over shipwrecks. Cf. Van Loon IV 98; cf. MI 55/251; cf. Eimer 347 (all refs. for medal). EF, toned, lacking paper inserts.

From the Jonathan H. Kagan Collection. Purchased from A.H. Baldwin’s & Sons Ltd.