395, Lot: 574. Estimate $100. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

temp. HANOVER. Edward Vernon. 1684-1757. Æ Medal (39mm, 15.64 g, 12h). Capture of Fort Chagre. Dated 22 November 1739. VICE · AD : RL · OF THE BLEW; & COM : ER · IN CHIEF · ALL HIS MAI : SHIPS IN THE WEST · INDIES, half-length figure of Vernon facing slightly right, holding baton; in background, tree and row of buildings in front of ship under sail right on sea; in three lines to right, A · VIEW ·/OF · FORT ·/CHAGRE; in two lines in exergue, THE · HON : EDWARD/VERNON · ESQ / PORTO BELLO TAKEN BY ADMIRAL VERNON WITH SIX MEN OF WAR ONLY · NOV · 22 · ANNO DOM · 1739 ·, six ships under sail right within harbor of Portobello. MI 547/153; Adams-Chao FCv 1-A; Betts 277; cf. Eimer 554. VF, brown surfaces.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.