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Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles

Medal commemorating forty galleys being equipped at Marseilles. Obverse: Head of King Louis XIV in a long wig with curls on the neck (right). Legend: 'LUDOVICUS MAGNUS REX CHRISTIANISSIMUS.' Reverse: Plan of the port of Marseilles, a port broadside view of a two-masted oared galley superimposed upon it. Legend: 'ASSERTUM MARIS MEDITERRANEI IMPERIUM.' (The command of the Mediterranean sea claimed.) Exergue: 'QUADRAGINTA TRIREMES . M . DC . LXXXVIII.' (Forty galleys, 1688.)
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Object details

ID: MEC0752
Collection: Coins and medals
Type: Medal
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Mauger, Jean; Mauger, Jean
Places: France
Date made: 1688
People: French Navy; King Louis XIV of France
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 41 mm