Lot 114
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Elizabeth I, Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, Silver, 51 mm, struck at Mildenburg in the Netherlands, the Spanish fleet dispersed, above in the clouds the name of Jehovah in Hebrew, FLAVIT ET DISSIPATI SVNT 1588 (HE BLEW AND THEY WERE SCATTERED), rev., a Church founded on a rock, amid tempestous waves, the arms of Prince Maurice crowned below, ALLIDOR NON LAEDOR (I AM ASSAILED NOT INJURED (MI i, 145/112), extremely fine
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Elizabeth I, Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, Silver, 51 mm, struck at Mildenburg in the Netherlands, the Spanish fleet dispersed, above in the clouds the name of Jehovah in Hebrew, FLAVIT ET DISSIPATI SVNT 1588 (HE BLEW AND THEY WERE SCATTERED), rev., a Church founded on a rock, amid tempestous waves, the arms of Prince Maurice crowned below, ALLIDOR NON LAEDOR (I AM ASSAILED NOT INJURED (MI i, 145/112), extremely fine

Details
Elizabeth I, Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, Silver, 51 mm, struck at Mildenburg in the Netherlands, the Spanish fleet dispersed, above in the clouds the name of Jehovah in Hebrew, FLAVIT ET DISSIPATI SVNT 1588 (HE BLEW AND THEY WERE SCATTERED), rev., a Church founded on a rock, amid tempestous waves, the arms of Prince Maurice crowned below, ALLIDOR NON LAEDOR (I AM ASSAILED NOT INJURED (MI i, 145/112), extremely fine
Further details
Historically correct in its imagery, the medal refers to the destruction of the Spanish Armada by a violent storm, seen here as an act of Divine intervention. On the reverse the church symbolises the Church of England and it's head Elizabeth.