Medal cast

Two casts, obverse and reverse, of a commemorative medal.Obverse: A winter landscape. Legend: 'TE NON PRAESENTE RIGEMVS' (when you are not present we freeze). Reverse: A single-masted vessels flying English colours. Legend: 'BREVI CERTVM QVO FATA FERANT' (soon we shall know where the fates bear us). Exergue: 'Katherine 1693.' Frederick, Duke of Saxony returns from England, 1693.

Object Details

ID: SEC1413
Type: Medal cast
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wermuth, Christian
Vessels: Katherine 1674 (HMY)
Date made: 1692-3
People: Fredrick fl.1692
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Wellcome Collection
Measurements: Overall: 8 mm x 41 mm