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Description: | Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Plan of the port of Marseilles, a port broadside view of a two-masted oared galley superimposed upon it. Legend: 'ASSERTUM MARIS MEDITERRANEI IMPERIUM.' (The command of the Mediterranean sea claimed.) Exergue: 'QUADRAGINTA TRIREMES . M . DC . LXXXVIII.' (Forty galleys, 1688.)
caption: Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | medals Louis XIV French Navy King of France J Mauger | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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