Elizabeth I, Copper token celebrating the triumph 
over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Dated 1589.
Struck in the Protestant town of Dordrecht, Holland. 29.5 mm.

TANDEM BONA CAVSA TRIVMPHAT and date 1589, Elizabeth, personifying England, holding open prayer book, sitting left in a triumphal chariot, palm branch over her shoulder.
SI NON VIRIBVS AT CAVSA POTIORES around, BELLV NECESS across  
fields, tree with a nest containing chicks, protecting themselves from a bird of prey.

Dugniolle 3230; Eimer 63.

With permission of Baldwin's Auctions Ltd, Auction 70, Lot 471, Sept. 2011.