WHM 35
- WHM 35
- Modern
- Medal
- 1688 AD
- Silver
- Struck
- Circular
- 37.10 mm
- 31.67g
- Mont. 1087; Voltolina 1075. Eimer 295.
- Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from Gorny & Mosch, 197, lot 7039 (Collection Mehmet Ede and Hüla Ede-Uçta).
- 2011-03-11
- Holland. Satiric Dutch medal engraved by J. Smelzing on the “satanic’ alliance anti-Protestant, of France and England with Turkey and Algiers. The four rules are depicted swearing allegiance against the “spirit/mind/soul of Christ”. The chi-rho is distorted and surmounted by the Muslim crescent. Satan’s cap is considered as a dig against Catholicism. This medal evokes the “Antichristian Confederacy”, as called by the Dutch Protestants, following to rumors of a secret treaty between James II (England) and Louis XIV (France) called “The French league to cut the Protestant’s throat’s in England”. It was also circulating that the former even allowed the Algerian Corsairs of Hajji Hussein Mezzomorto to bring Dutch prizes to England. Louis XIV was faulted of stirring the Ottomans against the Germans.
SOLIMAN III.LVDOV:XIIII.MEZOMORTO.IACOBVS II., CONTRA CHRISTI / ANIMUM (in exergue)
Suleyman III, Louis XIV, Mezzo Morto and James II, all with swords drawn swearing an oath of allegiance around blazing altar of discord, with serpent amid the flames, depicting an upward crescent above a distorted XP.
IN FOEDERE QUINTUS, 1688 (in exergue)
Winged Satan, wearing Jesuit’s cap, brandishing sword in right hand and thunderbolt in left, hovers above three lily stalks and upward crescent