Deceptive peace proposals from Louis XIV, Silver Medal. Front: Louis XIV sitting on a chair under which a snake crawls, fishes with a fishing rod with paper with the inscription PAX hanging on Dutchmen, who are warned by Minerva. In the midst of the Dutch, a man with a lily is standing on the back of his coat and on his head snakes, within a circle, cut off: inscription. Reverse: hand with sword, wrapped with pennant and inscription and illuminated by celestial light, freedom hat and Bible lie on altar with a bundle of arrows on the side, laurel branch with snake between leaves falls to
Deceptive peace proposals from Louis XIV, Silver Medal. Front: Louis XIV sitting on a chair under which a snake crawls, fishes with a fishing rod with paper with the inscription PAX hanging on Dutchmen, who are warned by Minerva. In the midst of the Dutch, a man with a lily is standing on the back of his coat and on his head snakes, within a circle, cut off: inscription. Reverse: hand with sword, wrapped with pennant and inscription and illuminated by celestial light, freedom hat and Bible lie on altar with a bundle of arrows on the side, laurel branch with snake between leaves falls to the ground. In the background Genoa, Palatinate and the Spanish Netherlands within a circle, cut off: inscription., Rhineland-Palatinate, Genoa, Southern Netherlands, Louis XIV (King of France), Jan Schmeltzing (I), Leiden, 1693, silver (metal), striking (metalworking), d cm × w gr
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