Antichristian Confederacy, 1688.
James II, the Antichristian Confederacy, 1688, Silver Medal by Jan Smeltzing, standing figures of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman III; Hajji Hussain Mezzomorto, privateer, Bey of Algiers and Admiral of the Ottoman Navy; Louis XIV of France; and James II, who take an oath of allegiance around a burning altar on which a crescent dominates a chi-rho, a snake can be seen amidst the flames, rev. a winged imp of Satan, wearing a Jesuit's cap, hovers over three lilies supporting a crescent, IN FOEDERE QUINTUS [the fifth in the confederacy], 1688, 37mm (Eimer 295; MI i 632/54). A rim knock and rectangular area of light tone, otherwise a darkly toned, extremely fine and a rare medal.
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James II, the Antichristian Confederacy, 1688, Silver Medal by Jan Smeltzing, standing figures of the Ottoman Sultan Suleyman III; Hajji Hussain Mezzomorto, privateer, Bey of Algiers and Admiral of the Ottoman Navy; Louis XIV of France; and James II, who take an oath of allegiance around a burning altar on which a crescent dominates a chi-rho, a snake can be seen amidst the flames, rev. a winged imp of Satan, wearing a Jesuit's cap, hovers over three lilies supporting a crescent, IN FOEDERE QUINTUS [the fifth in the confederacy], 1688, 37mm (Eimer 295; MI i 632/54). A rim knock and rectangular area of light tone, otherwise a darkly toned, extremely fine and a rare medal.
