256, Lot: 936. Estimate $100. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Æ Medal (41mm, 40.42 g, 12h). Battle of Vimiera: English Army Enters Lisbon. By J. J. Barre and G. Mills. Dated 1808 in Roman numerals. Triumphal car pulled right by four horses and bearing military trophies; above, Victory flying right; in two lines in exergue, BATTLE OF VIMIERA/AUG XXI MDCCCVIII / British ships moored at quayside; in three lines in exergue, THE ENGLISH ARMY ENTERS/LISBON/SEPT XI MDCCCVIII. BHM 637; Eimer 989. EF, brown patina.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.