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1559 Philip II " King of the New World" Betts-5

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Spain, 1559. This medal is within the first few medals where Betts begins his work. Obverse signed I. PAVL. POG. F. (Gianpaolo Poggini). Brass, cast and gilt. Obverse features a Bust of Philip II. PHILIPPVS. II. HISPAN. ET NOVI ORBIS OCCIDVI REX. Translated Philip, King of Spain and of the New Western World. Reverse features a Bust of Isabella of Valois. ISABELLA. VALES. PHILIPPI. II. HISP. REGIS. VX. Translated Isabella of Valois, wife of Philip II, King of Spain. Isabella was Philip's third wife. This medal was struck to Commemorate their Marriage on June 22, 1559. Philip II was King of Spain from 1556 until 1598, King of Naples from 1554 until 1598, king consort of England, as husband of Mary I, from 1554 to 1558, lord of the Seventeen Provinces from 1556 until 1581, holding various titles for the individual territories, such as duke or count; and King of Portugal and the Algarves as Philip I from 1580. Included in his reign was the vast empire in the Americas, including New Spain and Peru.

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