A Collection of British Historical Medals, the Property of a Gentleman

Spanish Wreck Recovered, 1687, a silver medal by G. Bower, conjoined busts of James II and Mary of Modena right, rev. the salvage operation, a small row-boat to the fore with Sir William Phipps’s ship, the Algier Rose, beyond, 55mm, 66.06g (MI I, 619/33; E 285; Betts 67; MH 71; Roehrs 1646). Good very fine, but some surface marks and rim knocks and dents £600-£800

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Sir William Phipps (1651-95), who was born in the American Colonies, led an expedition, financed by the Duke of Albermarle, to recover silver from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, which sank in the Silver Banks passage (now the Turks & Caicos Islands). The silver treasure recovered amounted to some £300,000, of which Phipps received £16,000.