Defeat of the Spanish Armada

386, Lot: 719. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TUDOR. temp. Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. Æ Rekenpenning (29mm, 6.16 g, 9h). Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Of uncertain Dutch manufacture. Dated 1588. (rosette) HOMO · PROPONIT · DEVS · DISPONIT · (Man proposes; God disposes), father, mother, and two children kneeling left on ground line in prayer; above, radiance emanating from clouds above; • 1588 • in exergue / + HISPANI · FVGIVT · ET · PEREVT · NEMINE · SEQVETE (the Spaniards are in flight and perish with no one in pursuit), ship under sail right, breaking up; Ωs over second V of FVGIVT, V of PEREVT, and second E of SEQVETE. Dugnoille 3188; Van Loon I 386; MI 147/116; Eimer 60. VF, brown patina.