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Token box
Token box. A small circular, pierced gilt box with a lid inscribed: 'NAVAL VICTORIES'. It contains six gilt tokens. 1) Obverse: Profile bust facing left: 'ADMIRAL SIR S. SMITH.'. Reverse: 'ACRE / DEFENDED / BUONAPARTE / REPULSED / SYRIA SAVED / 20TH MAY 1799.' 2) Obverse: Profile bust facing right: 'ADMIRAL LORD EXMOUTH.' Reverse: 'ALGIERS / AUGUST / 1816.' 3) Obverse: Profile bust facing right: 'ADM. VISC. DUNCAN.' Reverse: 'THE / DUTCH FLEET / DEFEATED 11 OCTR / 1797.' 4) Obverse: Profile bust facing left: 'ADM VISC. NELSON K.B. D. OF BRONTE.' Reverse: 'NILE / 1 AUG 1798 / COPENHAGEN / 1 APRIL 1801 / TRAFALGAR / 21 OCT 1805.' 5) Obverse: Profile bust facing left: 'ADM. EARL ST VINCENT.' Reverse: 'THE / SPANISH FLEET / DEFEATED / 14 FEBY. 1797.' Obverse: Profile bust facing right: 'EARL HOWE ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE K.G.' Reverse: 'THE / FRENCH FLEET / DEFEATED OFF USHANT / 1 JUNE 1794.'
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0339 |
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| Type: | Token box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | Bombardment of Algiers, 1816; French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Camperdown, 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Glorious First of June, 1794 French Revolutionary Wars: Defence of Acre, 1799 |
| Date made: | circa 1816 |
| People: | Pellew, Edward; Nelson, Horatio Duncan, Adam Jervis, John Howe, Richard Smith, William Sidney |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund. |
| Measurements: | Overall: 13 mm x 27 mm |
| Parts: | Token box |