SINCONA British Collection - Part 6
(British Gold and Silver Medals)
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Commonwealth, 1649-1660. Hollow Cast Silver Medal 1653, 71.12 g. Death of Martin Tromp. By Peter van Abeele. Bust in plain collar. Field damasked with ornaments. MART . HERP . TROMP . R. L. ADM . V . HOLL . E. WESTV . Aº . 1653. Rv. Armorial shield, with helmet, crest and supporters. On scroll above: OBYT Æ 56. Naval battle below. Plain edge. 70.5 mm. Eimer -. MI i 402/32. van Loon II, 364,1. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1653-4. Unterschiedlich erhalten / Various conditions. Zusammengesetzte Hohlgussmedaille, fein ziseliert / Two plates soldered together, embossed and chased.
Maarten van Tromp (23 April 1598 - 31 July 1653) was an army general and admiral in the Dutch navy during much of the Eighty Years' War and throughout the First Anglo-Dutch War.
He was killed in the Battle of Scheveningen by a sharpshooter from an English ship.