Triton XIX, Lot: 2784. Estimate $5000. Sold for $25000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LOW COUNTRIES, Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden (Dutch Republic). 1581-1795. AV Medal (39.5mm, 23.17 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 ·*· , soldiers emerging from cargo boat / BREDA · A · SERVITVTE/HISPANA · VINDICATA/DVCTV · PRINCIPIS/MAVRITII · A · NASS :/· A° M.D.XC · in five lines; above, lion rampant right toward crowned coat-of-arms, holding sword and bundle of arrows. Van Loon I, p. 409-10. EF, mount removed.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sotheby’s (31 March 1995), lot 761.