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Nomos 12

22 May 2016
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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Estimate: 1000 CHF
Hammer Price:  2000 CHF
Lot 265

NETHERLANDS, The Dutch Republic. Medal (Silver gilt, 57mm, 58.40 g 12), commemorating the Battle of the Zuiderzee of 1573, by Caspar Wyntges, 1615. (rosette stops) INQVISITIO INQVIRENDO NIMIS SEDVLO SE IPSAM PERDIT (=the Inquisition by inquiring too deeply, lost herself Scene of the sea battle on the Zuiderzee: the Spanish ships have crosses on their mainmasts while the Dutch ones are plain. Rev. 11.OCTOBER.1573. / DOOR.LOVTER.GHEWELT / VAN.MENICH.HELT / DER VRYE WESTVRIISCHE.NATIE / WERF BOSSOV.GEVELT / DIT.HIER.GESTELT / TOT.LOFTEREN.VAN / GODS GRATIE /.1615. (= only by the strength of many a hero of the free west Frisian nation was Bossu overthrown) Nine lines of a laudatory poem by C. Thamson. Sandwich A2. Van Loon I, pp. 167-168. A very sharp contemporary cast with contemporary gilding. Some signs of mounting, otherwise, extremely fine.


From an old Dutch collection, originally acquired in 1953.

This is a very well-made piece; from the same dies as the last.

Online bidding closes: 22 May 2016, 03:00:00 CEST Current Date & Time: 24 Apr 2024, 04:42:42 CEST Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:2000 CHF

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