Medals of the Early Colonial Period and the European Heritage, Capture of the Spanish Treasure Fleet by Piet Heyn in Matanzas Bay, Cuba, 1629, a silver medal, unsigned, Dutch fleet engages the Spanish, rev. indica classe intercepta, etc, 58mm (van Loon II, 171; Betts 24; Ford XIII, 681). Extremely fine and attractively toned, rare £3,000-5,000

Struck from the captured silver