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Token box
Circular token box with a lid inscribed 'NAVAL VICTORIES'. It contains five gilt tokens. (a) Obverse: Admiral's profile bust facing left. 'ADM.VISC. NELSON. K.B. D. OF BRONTE.' Reverse: 'NILE / 1. AUGT. 1798 / COPENHAGEN / 1. APRIL 1801 / TRAFALGAR / 21 OCT 1805.' (two examples). (b) Obverse: Admiral's bust in profile facing right. 'EARL HOWE. ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE. K. G. Reverse: 'THE / FRENCH FLEET / DEFEATED / OFF USHANT / 1 JUNE 1794.' (Two examples). (c) Obverse; Admiral's bust, profile facing left. 'ADMIRAL EARL ST VINCENT.' Reverse: ''THE / SPANISH FLEET / DEFEATED / 14 FEBY 1797.'
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Object Details
| ID: | OBJ0344 |
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| Type: | Token box |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Events: | French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797; 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 the Glorious First of June, 1794 |
| Date made: | 1806-07; 1806-1807 |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio; Howe, Richard Jervis, John |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Sutcliffe-Smith Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 13 mm x 27 mm |
| Parts: | Token box |