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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 173

The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals | Battle of La Hogue, 19-23 May 1692, AR Medal, DIVUMQ : SIBI POSCEBAT HONOREM, Neptune drives Louis XIV in his marine chariot inscribed RUSS : ET ALMON, distant ships in flames, PSEUDONET : OCEAN : EXP : | PUGN : AD BARFL. | MDCXCII in exergue in three lines, rev. NVNC PLVRIBVS IMPAR., blowing up of the Soleil Royal, her stern decorated with a meridian sun and the motto NEC PLURIB. IMP., BRIT. BAT: Q. VIRTUTE MDCXCII in exergue in two lines, edge plain 37mm, 33.28g (MI 58/255), attractively and richly toned in shades of blue and ochre, lustrous, a magnificent medal, extremely fine and extremely rare

Provenance
The Bernard Pearl Collection of British Historical Medals

Spink, by private treaty, c. 1965 - £12.10.0


Louis XIV took for his cognisance the sun and the motto NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR. It decorated the stern of the Soleil Royal which bore Admiral de Tourville's flag in the battle of La Hogue. He singled out Admiral Russell and after a most severe contest was obliged to be towed away. His ship was so much damaged that it had to be run ashore at Cherbourg where with others it was burnt to the water by Admiral de Laval.



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$5,500

Starting price
$400