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Auction: 6013 - Edward III (Double Leopard) The Hilary F Guard Collection of Manx Related Items Ancient, Islamic, English & Foreign Coi
Lot: 448

Anne (1702-14), Expedition to Vigo Bay 1702, gold medal, unsigned (attributed to John Croker), anna· d:g: brit: fra: et· hib: regina·, crowned, draped bust left, rev. capta· et· incensa· gall: et· hisp: classe·, view of Vigo harbour, the Spanish and French fleets burning inside, the English and Dutch at the harbour mouth, ad· vigvm· xii· oct:mdccii· in exergue, 36mm., 26.04g (cf. MI.238,18, not listed in gold), scuffed on the obverse, good very fine, the reverse better, extremely rare in gold, reputedly struck from the gold captured at the battle of Vigo Bay Estimate £ 2,000-3,000Provenance: P. K. Hill collection, Spink auction 25, 24-25 November 1982, lot 477 Several other examples in gold have passed through the salerooms (Montagu lot 568, Murdoch lot 428, Huth lot 59), but those, and the others in private collections know to the cataloguers, have the obverse inscription begining ´Anna Dei Gra´.

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