British and World Coins, Commemorative Medals, Numismatic Books

SPANISH WRECK RECOVERED, 1687, a silver medal by G. Bower, conjoined busts of James II and Mary to right, he laureate, rev. the salvage operation, a small row-boat to the fore with Sir William Phipps’s ship, the Algier Rose, beyond, 55mm (MI I, 619/33; E 285; Betts 67). A few light marks and scratches in the fields, otherwise extremely fine or better, attractively toned £900-1,200