395, Lot: 575. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Edward Vernon. 1684-1757. Æ Medal (37mm, 9.68 g, 5h). Capture of Cartagena. Dually dated 1740 and 1741. ADMIRAL : VERNON : VEIWING : THE : TOWN : OF : CATHAGANA (rosette), Vernon standing slightly left, holding telescope; in background, town and three ships; in exergue, 1740 : 1 / THE FORTS OF CARTHAGENA DESTROYD BY AD^M VERNON, three ships before the town of Cartagena and two fortifications, labeled S · IOSEPH, S · IAGO, and CARTHAGENA; 42 below. MI 548/155; Adams-Chao CAv 6-G; Betts 334; Eimer 558. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.