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Description: | Medal commemorating the safety of the harbours. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Broadside starboard view of a two-masted twenty-four-oared galley under sail; a plan of the forts and harbour of Havre in background. Legend: 'PORTUUM SECURITAS.' (The safety of the ports.) Exergue: 'QUINDECIM TRIREMES IN OCEANO . M . DC . LXXXX.' (Fifteen galleys on the ocean, 1690.)
caption: Medal commemorating the safety of the harbours; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the safety of the harbours; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | medals Louis XIV King of France J Mauger | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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