Cast

Two casts, obverse and reverse, of a counter. Obverse: Plan of Sluys. Legend: 'SOLI DEO GLORIA', 'SLVIS'. Reverse: Plan of Ostend. 'OOSTENDE'. The capture of Sluys in 1604 was seen by the United Provinces as compensating for the loss of Ostend later the same year.

Object Details

ID: SEC1248
Type: Cast
Display location: Not on display
Events: Eighty Years' War: Siege of Ostend, 1601; Eighty Years' War: Siege of Sluys, 1604
Date made: 1604
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wellcome Collection
Measurements: Overall: 8 mm x 29 mm