April 12, 2024
1599 Betts-20 Bronze Jeton. Celebrates Pieter Van Der Does Victories over Spain.
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1599 (undated) Betts 20 bronze jeton. Very Fine detail and despite corrosion and encrustations it is all there and presents fairly well. Google 1599 Betts 20 bronze jeton for more information. The obverse depicts two Termini or Gods placed on a map of the islands of Bommel and Thiel, the name Jehovah between them with the legend "SIC NESCIA CEDERE FATA" surrounding. The reverse bears a ship in full sail to right with the inscription "EN ALTERA QVÆ VEHAT ARGO." The jeton compares Admiral van der Does to Jason and his sailors to the Argonauts. This bronze 29mm Dutch jeton commemorates the victories in 1599 of Admiral Pieter Van Der Does and symbolizes the halting of the Spanish drive for New World dominion. In 1597 he was vice-admiral in the Admiralty of the Maze and in 1599 a vice-admiral in the Admiralty of Amsterdam. In May 1599 he led a Dutch and Zeeland fleet which set out to blockade the Iberian coast as part of the Eighty Years' War. En route they attacked the Spanish possession of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, but this was heavily defended and the attack was unsuccessful. The Naval Expedition went on to Brazil and captured the island of St. Thomas, it then moved to attack Spanish possessions in West Africa around Sao Tomé, where van der Does died, either of wounds received at Las Palmas or of malaria at the age of 37. An important
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