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Medal - Four Days Battle

Features

Location Dutch Republic
Type Commemorative medals › Military medals
Year 1666
Composition Srebro
Weight 107.60 g
Diameter 78 mm
Shape Okrągły
Technique Cast (Hollow cast)
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
187316
References Van Loon II# II 527/4
Gerard van Loon. Medallic History of the Low Countries / Volume II: 1602-1667 (2 volumes).
, MI I# 167
Edward Hawkins, Augustus W. Franks, Herbert Appold Grueber; 1885. Medallic Illustrations of the History of Great Britain and Ireland to the Death of George II / Volume I. British Museum, London, United Kingdom.
, Montagu# BB7
George Charles Montagu; 1937. British and Foreign Medals relating to Naval and Maritime Affairs (1st Edition). National Maritime Museum, London, United Kingdom.

Commemorative issue

Czterodniowa bitwa (11-14 czerwca 1666 r.)Automatically translated

Obverse

(en) Facing armored bust of De Ruyter, turned slightly to the right, crowned by two Tritons and with arms and banners to each side.

Lettering: +DE RUYTER DIE DEN BRIT SYN MOET GETEUGELT HEEFT ALDUS DOOR MULLERS HANT INT GOUD EN SILUER LEEFT.A°MDCLXVI DEN XIIII IUNY

Engraver: Wouter Muller

Reverse

(en) Scene of the sea battle.

Lettering: HIER STRYCKT HET BRITSCH GEWELT VOOR NEDERLANT DE VLAGH DE ZEE HEEFT NOT GEWAEGHT VAN ZULK EEN ZWAREDN SLAGH

Engraver: Wouter Muller

Edge

ZwykłyAutomatically translated

Comments

(en) Frederiks 9/9a. MI, I, p. 521, 167. Van Loon II, p. 527, iv.
FNM I. Milford Haven 566

This medal commemorates one of the longest sea battles in history, The Four Days Battle, one of the major events of the Second Anglo Dutch War (1665-1667). It went on, in some ways inconclusively, until the British fleet managed to sail away into a fog bank: both sides claimed victory, but the British were definitely bested. In the end, however, the battle had no long term effect.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1666  (en) MDCLXVI

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