256, Lot: 925. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Edward Vernon. 1684-1757. Æ Medal (38mm, 13.11 g, 6h). Capture of Portobello. Dated 1739. THE · BRITISH : GLORY · REVIV · D · BY · ADMIRAL : VERИOИ, full-length figure of Vernon facing slightly left, pointing and holding baton; canon and anchor in background / HE TOOK PORTO BELLO WITH SIX SHIPS OИLY, three ships under sail right and three ships within harbor of Portobello; in exergue, ИOV · 22 · 1739. MI 539/124; Eimer -; Adams-Chao PBvi 6-G; Betts 224. VF, dark brown surfaces, some roughness.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.