Medal - Recovery of a sunken treasure ND

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Inscription of 14 lines, all within an olive wreath entwined with the names and arms of the eight directors of the project.

Lettering: In memoriam rei / Quâ arte admirandâ / priorumq/3 faeculorum cogitata / fuperante, prope Valacros in ple / no ac aeftuanti mari, fub aufpiciis / Senatus Zelandici ac procuranti / Marcel. Goefio e navi submersâ ac / disruptâ profundumq/3 fub arenis la= / titante immenfa argenti, tum rudis / tum signati, vis, gemme plures, ac / tormenta bellica, fubducta, ser= / vata ac veteribus dominis / ex jure reftituta funt / 1660

Translation: a memorial of how, by an admirable art, surpassing the inventions of past centuries, under the auspices of the Deputy Councillors of Zeeland and under the direction of Marcellus van der Goes, a great quantity of coined and bullion silver, many precious stones and many cannon were raised up near Walcheren, from a vessel lost, destroyed and sunk in the sands, and then returned to their proper owners

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Comment

Van Loon II, pp. 458-460.
Medal commemorating the recovery of silver, gems and cannon carried on a merchant ship, which had sunk a few years earlier under the command of the very appropriately named Captain Waterdrinker.