302, Lot: 528. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Æ Medal (41mm, 29.21 g, 12h). Mudie’s National Medals Series: Settlement of the British at Bombay in 1602 and the East India Company’s Victory over the French. By J. P. Droz and G. Mills. Dated 1804, but struck 1820. Neptune reclining left on globe, holding British ensign and cradling cornucopia; British lion at feet / Neptune seated on globe, holding trident and Victory. BHM 567; Eimer 952; Mudie 2. EF, brown surfaces, a few light marks.

In 1804, the French attacked a fleet of the East India Company’s vessels in the Straits of Malacca. Under the direction of Commodore Nathanial Dance, the Company’s lightly armed, merchant convoy was able to drive off the French squadron, an unlikely turn of events for which Dance was handsomely rewarded. The Commodore was knighted on his return to England, and retired comfortably before passing at the age of 78 in 1827.