CNG 109, Lot: 1068. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

STUART (Orange). temp. William III & Mary. 1688-1694. Gilt AR Box Medal (49mm, 42.77 g). Allied Victory Against the French Fleet at La Hogue. Of Dutch manufacture. By P.H. Müller. Dated 1692 (in chronograph). NON ILLI IMPERIVM; SED MIHI SORTE DATVM •, Neptune toppling Louis XIV, holding trident, from his sea-chariot; naval battle in background; GULIELMO • III • M • BRIT • R •/OB IMPERIUM MARIS/ASSERT •/P • H • M • in four lines in exergue. Edge: * CONCASTIGATVS GALLORVM FASTVS ET ASTVS FLVCTIBVS, ET PVGNA FRACTVS ATROCE FRAGOR • (FK) / SE CONDET IN UNDAS •, Victory left on ornate galley; to right, cherubim holding crowned arms of Great Britain and the Dutch Republic; in background, sun setting over shipwrecks. Cf. Van Loon IV 98; cf. MI 55/251; cf. Eimer 347 (all refs. for medal). EF, toned, lacking paper inserts.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex Jonathan H. Kagan Collection (Triton XVII, 7 January 2017), lot 1536, purchased from A.H. Baldwin’s & Sons Ltd.