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Auction: 13013 - Ancient, British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 328

Netherlands, Reception of the French Refugees, 1688, silver medal, crowned lion rampant right brandishing sword and holding arrows, a foot on an over turned beehive, crowned arms left, miseros scit. paschere. melle. hostibvs. ense. minans, rev. inscription in eleven lines, almae. matri. traiectensi. reipvb. galli. reformati. ad. ipsam. religionis. cavsa. profvgi. omnes. propria. viscera. excepti plerique. pia. alvmnorvm. sorte. donati. hunc. nvmmvm. grati. offerbant. a.d. m.d.c.lxxxviii (Van Loon III, 322), edge knock on reverse, mark on Lion's rump, attractively toned especially on obverse, extremely fine, very rare

Estimate
£600 to £800