Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, AR medal 52 mm, 47.11 g, 1587.

Support of the Dutch United Provinces.
DEO OPT MAX LAVS ET HONOR IN OE AEVVM QVOD ("to the best and greatest God be praise and honour forever", Elizabeth enthroned facing, holding cross-tipped sceptre and cross on globe, her foot on a hydra depicting the Catholic influence, a courtier (possibly the Earl of Leicester) standing at her side, holding her cloak, five naked boys, kneeling and bearing the shields of Gelderland, Holland, Zealand, Utrecht and Friesland around, date below.
QVEM DEVS CONFICIET SPIRITV ORIS SVI ("Whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth") around, the name of God in Hebrew within clouds above, Pope, bishops, other ecclesiastics and Catholic ritual objects falling from the heavens.

Eimer 53; British Museum G3.FD.142; Hawkins Medall. II, 99.

Image Courtesy of the British Museum.