CNG 99, Lot: 1159. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Breda. AR Medal (39mm, 19.22 g, 12h). Liberation of Breda from the Spanish. By J. van Bylaer. Dated 1590 in Roman numerals. PARATI · VINCERE · AVT · MORI · 4 · MARTII ·/·*· INVICTI · ANIMI · PR ·*· (the reward of the unconquerable souls, prepared to win or die), soldiers emerging from cargo boat / BREDA · A · SERVITVTE/HISPANA · VINDICATA/DVCTV · PRINCIPIS/MAVRITII · A · NASS :/· A° M.D.XC · (Breda, freed from Spanish servitude under the leadership of Prince Maurits) in five lines; above, lion rampant right toward crowned coat-of-arms, holding sword and bundle of arrows. Van Loon I, pp. 409-10. Near EF, toned.

Ex World-Wide Coins of California XXVIII (16 November 1995), lot 357.