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Description: | Medal commemorating the fortifications at Ostend. Obverse: Youthful bust of King Charles II of Spain with long hair in armour, mantle and order of the Golden Fleece (right). Legend: 'CAROLVS IID G. HISPANIARVM ET INDIARVM REX FLANDRIAE COMES'. Reverse: View of the forts in foreground and shipping in the river, Ostend in distance; above, a hand issuing from a cloud pointing to a group of three cherubs resting on a ribbon, inscribed, one blowing a trumpet, one holding a wreath, the third a palm branch. Legend: 'FLANDRIA OSTENDE'. Inscribed on ribbon 'Neptvno.fD FrenVM CaroLVs apposVIt'.
caption: Medal commemorating the fortifications at Ostend; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the fortifications at Ostend; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | II medals John Roettier Charles | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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