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1598, Netherlands, Zeeland Province. Cu "Victories of Maurice of Nassau" Medal.

Condition: F+ Mint Year: 1598 Reference: Dugniolle 344, van Loon I 507. Denomination: Medal -  Victories of Maurice of Nassau / Admiralty of Zeeland Material: Copper Diameter: 31mm Weight: 6.1gm

Obverse: Ducal crown above oval coat-of-arms of Zeeland on two anchors in saltire. Legend: DEVS . CAVSAM . NOSTRAM . AGIT . 15 (privy mark: castle) 98 .

Reverse: Standing male and female figures vis-a-vis looking to illuminated hebrew "Jehova" inscription (Tetragrammaton) which shines thru clouds above. Army corps at sides. Legend: IN . VICTORIA . GRATI

Zeeland (Zealand) is the westernmost and least populous province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, borders North Brabant to the east, South Holland to the north, and the country of Belgium to the south and west. It consists of a number of islands and peninsulas (hence its name, meaning "Sealand") and a strip bordering the Flemish provinces of East and West Flanders. Its capital is Middelburg

Maurice of Orange (Dutch: Maurits van Oranje; German: Moritz von Oranien; 14 November 1567 – 23 April 1625) was stadtholder of all the provinces of the Dutch Republic except for Friesland from 1585 at the earliest until his death in 1625. Before he became Prince of Orange upon the death of his eldest half-brother Philip William in 1618, he was known as Maurice of Nassau.

Maurice spent his youth in Dillenburg in Nassau, and studied in Heidelberg and Leiden. He succeeded his father William the Silent as stadtholder of Holland and Zeeland in 1585, and became stadtholder of Utrecht, Guelders and Overijssel in 1590, and of Groningen in 1620. As Captain-General and Admiral of the Union, Maurice organized the Dutch rebellion against Spain into a coherent, successful revolt and won fame as a military strategist. Under his leadership and in cooperation with the Land's Advocate of Holland Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, the Dutch States Army achieved many victories and drove the Spaniards out of the north and east of the Republic. Maurice set out to revive and revise the classical doctrines of Vegetius and pioneered the new European forms of armament and drill. During the Twelve Years' Truce, a religious dispute broke out in the Republic, and a conflict erupted between Maurice and Van Oldenbarnevelt, which ended with the latter's decapitation. After the Truce, Maurice failed to achieve more military victories. He died without legitimate children in The Hague in 1625 and was succeeded by his younger half-brother Frederick Henry.