Netherlands. Vlissingen Silver Medal 1772 Bicentenary of the liberation of Vlissingen - Rare - civic officers - By Schepp EF-

Netherlands. Vlissingen (Flushing). 1772. Silver presentation medal by Johann Heinrich Schepp. Municipal issue presented to civic officers and other recipients.

Issued for the bicentenary of Vlissingen’s liberation from Spanish authority on 6 April 1572.

Obverse: A monument bearing the portrait of William of Orange within an oval medallion, surmounted by a smoking incense vessel and two encircling serpents. In the background, Vlissingen and ships at sea.
Above: EBEN-HAEZER.
In the exergue: EX DECRETO S P Q FLISS / VIII ID APR MDCCLXXII, recording the authority of the city and the commemorative date in 1772.

Reverse: Helmeted Liberty holding a spear surmounted by a liberty cap, trampling the blindfolded figure of Superstition and warding off Tyranny, represented with a sword and yoke.
Legend: ET SPONTE ET FELICITER.
In the exergue: VIII ID APRIL / MDLXXII.
Signed S. for Schepp.

This scarce municipal presentation issue was distributed during the official celebrations. Recorded recipients included officers of the civic guard and the Free Company, alongside invited guests and other members of the city’s civic institutions.

The original accounts, published by M.G.A. de Man in 1909, record 352 silver medals in a declaration and 350 in the accompanying invoice.

A corresponding example is preserved in the Rijksmuseum, inventory NG-VG-1-2738.

References: Vervolg Van Loon 464; KPK 3243.

Material: silver.
Weight: 11.1 g.
Diameter: 31.7 mm.

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