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Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles
Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Plan of the port of Marseilles, a port broadside view of a two-masted oared galley superimposed upon it. Legend: 'ASSERTUM MARIS MEDITERRANEI IMPERIUM.' (The command of the Mediterranean sea claimed.) Exergue: 'QUADRAGINTA TRIREMES . M . DC . LXXXVIII.' (Forty galleys, 1688.)
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Object Details
| ID: | MEC0752 |
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| Collection: | Coins and medals |
| Type: | Medal |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Mauger, Jean; Mauger, Jean |
| Places: | France |
| Date made: | 1688 |
| People: | French Navy; King Louis XIV of France |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall: 41 mm |