Medal - Battle of Nyborg
Features
| Location |
Denmark
 |
|---|---|
| King |
Frederick III (Frederik III) (1648-1670)
|
| Type | Commemorative medals › Military medals |
| Year | 1659 |
| Composition | Tin |
| Weight | 101.04 g |
| Diameter | 72.5 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Number | N# 176857 |
| References | Galster# 84 Georg Galster; 1936. Danske og norske Medailler og Jetons: ca. 1533-ca. 1788 = Danish and Norwegian Medals and Tokens. Selskabet til Udgivelse af Danske Mindesmærker, Copenhagen, Denmark. Carl Anton Ossbahr; 1927. Mynt och Medaljer: slagna för främmande makter i anledning av krig mot Sverigetilägg till B.E. Hildebrands Sveriges och svenska konungahusets minnespenningar, praktmynt och belöningsmedaljer = Coins and Medals. Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien, Uppsala, Sweden. |
Commemorative issue
Battle of Nyborg and the conquest of the city of Funen by the allied Danish-Brandenburg-Austrian troops
Obverse
An angry war elephant tramples a long snake and hits a capricorn with his trunk, lifting it off the ground. A man falls from the back of the elephant while his hat falls into the excrement of the capricorn.
Engraver: Jeremias Hercules
Reverse
Eight lines of text.
Lettering:
MAGNANIMI
PRETIO, QUOS VIS
VEL SUSCITAT ASTUS,
IAM DEBELLATIS,
UNDIQVE TUTUS
ERO:
XIV NOVEMB:
MDCLIX
Engraver: Jeremias Hercules
Comments
The elephant here represents Denmark, the falling man is the Swedish field marshal Palatine Philip of Sulzbach, the ibex is the other Swedish field marshal Stenbock, and Sweden is the snake. The motto of the Order is on the reverse. The allied troops soundly defeated the Swedes and returned Funen, Denmark's third largest island, to Danish control.
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