Defeat of the Spanish Armada
TUDOR. temp.Elizabeth I. 1558-1603. Æ Jeton (33mm, 6.03 g, 12h). Defeat of the Spanish Armada. Of uncertain Dutch manufacture, possibly from Middleburg. Dated 1588. · VENIT · IVIT · FVIT · 15 (castle) 88 (saltire stops), two ships engaged in combat; CLASSIS · HISP · in exergue / · (castle) · SOLI · DEO · GLORIA (saltire stops), crowned coat-of-arms of Zeeland. MI 146/113; Eimer 58; Van Loon I, p. 384, 2. EF, brown surfaces with underlying red.
