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1498
The Crimean War. Napoleon III and Queen Victoria. Alliance of France and Great Britain to challenge
Russia’s influence of the Ottoman Empire, Copper Medal. 72 mm, 207.1g, by Laurent Joseph Hart.
Conjoined busts of Napoleon III and Victoria, NAPOLEON VICTORIA. Rev.
Vast assembly of
Ottoman military trophies before dome of mosque, A LA GLOIRE DES ARMÉES ALLIÉES -
ALMA 20 SEPT BALAKLAVA 25 OCT INKERMANN 5 NOV. 1854. (Divo 214; Dogan 6541).
About extremely fine.
$ 1,500
ex Baldwin’s Auction 37, 4 May 2004, lot 1925.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
1499
The Battle of Doggersbank and the Death of Rear-Admiral Baron Gerrit Jan Wolter Bentinck (1745-1781).
Silver Medal, 1781, 45 mm, by J G Holtzhey. A monument and funerary urn with military trophies, a ship at
anchor beyond with flag at half-mast. Rev. Crowned altar with arms of the admiralty and military trophies
around, DEUGDS BELONING. (Betts 587; vL 565; MH 632; J J Ford XIV, Stack’s, 23 May 2006, 248, 249.
30.1g), Choice extremely fine.
$ 250
Rear-Admiral Baron Gerrit Jan Wolter Bentinck died during the naval battle of the Doggersbank (Dogger Bank) in the North Sea,
5 August 1781, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, part of the War of American Independence. Neither side actually prevailed
but the Dutch, already allied to the United States, claimed a significant victory.