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Auction: 22007 - British and World Coins and Commemorative Medals Autumn Auction
Lot: 771

Victories of Anne over Louis XIV, AR Medal, 1706, by P. H. Müller, LVDOVICVS MAGNVS ANNA MAIOR •, Anne armed as Minerva overthrows Louis XIV armed as a Roman warrior, rev. twelve shields around, CVRA PVGNACIS FACTA MINERVAE, Victory with a palm leaf and crown, city in the distance, XII• VRBES CVM PROVINCIIS INTRA XV • D : RECEPTAE • 1706 in exergue in four lines, DOMINVS TRADIDIT EVM IN MANVS FOEMINAE on edge, 43mm, 29.64g (Eimer 421; MI ii 288/97; van Loon V, 39; Harding 37 this medal), a couple of hairlines to obverse field, otherwise with attractive dark grey surfaces, with much brilliance and cabinet toning, the intricate high relief areas pleasingly struck-up, extremely fine and very rare

The reverse of this medal shows a small figure of Victory surrounded by the shields of the twelve provinces of Brabant which had been freed from French rule. The obverse legend: Louis the Great, Anne the Greater is a direct and sarcastic reference to the recent assumption of the title Magnus by Louis.

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£800

Starting price
£400