Description

Anne, 1702-1714. Silver Medal 1702, 18.14 g. Capitulation of Towns on the River Meuse. Unsigned, by J. Croker. Bust, crowned and draped. ANNA . DEI . GRA : MAG : BR: FRA : ET . HIB : REGINA. Rv. Columns of soldiers near artillery bombarding a fortified city. VIRES . ANIMVMQVE . MINISTRAT. In exergue: CAPTIS . TRAJANA . VENLOA . RVREMVNDA . STEPHANOVERDA . LEODIO . MDCCII. Plain edge. 36.5 mm. Eimer 396. MI ii 241/26. van Loon IV, 358. Saunders/Vanhoudt 1702-27. Fast vorzüglich / About Extremely Fine. Kleine Kratzer / Small scratches.

Purchased from Spink & Son, London, February 1992, lot 283.

The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict fought between 1701 and 1714. The immediate cause was the death of the childless Habsburg Charles II of Spain in November 1700, which led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between supporters of the French Bourbons and the Austrian Habsburgs.

During 1702, the Grand Alliance repelled an assault on Nijmegen, captured Kaiserswerth, a strong town on the eastern side of the Dutch Republic, and took Venlo, Roermond, Stevensweert and Liège along the Meuse.