365, Lot: 568. Estimate $750. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN/NORTH AMERICA. Capture of Morro Castle. 1763. CU Medal (50mm, 61.57 g). By T.F. Prieto. Conjoined busts of Don Luis de Velasco and Vincenzo Gonzales right / Morro Castle's magazine exploding, ships and boats around. Betts 443; Eimer 704. Good VF, Scarce.

Morro Castle was captured from the Spanish in August 1762 by a huge British fleet of 200 vessels and 14,000 men, under the command of Lord Albermarle and Admiral Sir George Pocock. The British soldiers are seen, on 30 July, storming the fort as it explodes, sending the bodies of the defenders into the air.