Medal cast

Two casts, obverse and reverse, of a commemorative medal. Obverse: Plan of Sluys. The crowned shield of Utrecht below. Legend: 'ORDIN TRAEC' (state of Utrecht). Legend: 'IEHOVA . PRIVS . DEDERAT.' Reverse: Plan of Ostend. Legend continued: 'PLVS . QVAM . PERDIDIMVS.' (God gave us in advance more than we lost). The capture of Sluys in 1604 was seen by the United Provinces as compensating for the loss of Ostend later the same year.

Object Details

ID: SEC1246
Type: Medal cast
Display location: Not on display
Events: Eighty Years' War: Siege of Ostend, 1601
Date made: 1604
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wellcome Collection
Measurements: Overall: 6 mm x 54 mm
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