Auction Name: 2026 January 14 - 17 FUN US Coins Signature® Auction

Lot Number: 3019

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1702 Medal American Treasure Captured at Vigo Bay, Betts-94, AU58 PCGS. 47.3 mm, 37.2 gm. By Georg Friedrich Nürnberger, Georg Hautsch, and Martin Brunner. The obverse shows Neptune in his seahorse-drawn car and sea-cherubs holding British, German, and Dutch shields supporting a scroll inscribed by Victory with the names of 24 French ships captured in the harbor of Vigo. On the reverse, nine allied ships advance in tight formation toward the chain that stretched across the entrance to Vigo Bay and protected the ships sheltering within. This design incorporates an amazing amount of exquisite detail chronicling a catastrophic Spanish-French defeat. Lost to the British and Dutch was the entire treasure fleet that had survived a perilous transatlantic voyage only to be destroyed in a supposedly secure home port.
Ex: John J. Ford, Jr., Part 13 (Stack's, 1/2006), lot 792; The John W. Adams Collection (Heritage, 1/2013), lot 3656.
From The Costa Family Collection, Part II.

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