1676 AE Medal Betts-50, Ile de Cayenne, BN MS64BN 认证号82685414, PCGS号613770

Betts-50 1676 French Colony at Cayenne Retaken Medal. Betts-50, Van Loon III, 188. Bronze. MS-64 BN (PCGS). 40.8 mm. Rims beveled and filed, as made. Handsome olive-brown obverse toning with intermingled blushes of brick-red, the reverse is more boldly toned in medium brown. Both sides are satiny and smooth with appreciable semi-reflective qualities evident in the fields when the medal is viewed at direct lighting angles. Struck from Obverse C of the Betts-48 type, the same as the specimen offered above in this sale, this piece in a later die state with the cracks at left sharper and more advanced. The French colony at Cayenne had been seized by the Dutch in 1675, but on December 17, 1676, 800 men under Victor-Marie d'Estrees recaptured it in a night assault after a request for surrender had been refused.