Anne, 1702-1714. Satirical Silver Medal n. d. (1706), 29.31 g. Victories over Louis XIV. Unsigned, by P. H. Müller. Anne, as Minerva, subdues Louis XIV armed as a Roman warrior. LVDOVICVS MAGNVS ANNA MAIOR. Rv. A woman in a besieged tower casts stones down on the enemy. PERCVTE ME NE DICTATVR QVOD A FEMINA INTERFECTVS SIM . IVDIC . C . C . 9. Edge: DOMINVS TRADIDIT EVM IN MANVS FOEMINÆ . IVDITH . XVI . C . 43.2 mm. Eimer 422. MI ii 289/98. Forster 847. van Loon V, 39,3. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1706-22. Vorzüglich-FDC / About Uncirculated. Herrliche Patina / Most attractively toned.

From the auction Spink Taisei Numismatics 33, Zurich, April 1990, lot 830.

In the greater frame of the War for Spanish Succession, in 1706, the Anglo-Dutch Allies won several Victories over the French Bourbons: the French were comprehensively defeated at Ramillies by an Allied army under Marlborough, which then occupied much of the Spanish Netherlands in under two weeks; the assault on Barcelona was repulsed, while an Allied force was allowed from Portugal to enter Madrid and Zaragoza; and further successes overseas.