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Great Britain, brass Admiral Vernon medal, (Cartagena)/Porto Bello (1741).

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Great Britain, brass Admiral Vernon medal, (Cartagena)/Porto Bello (1741).
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Great Britain, brass Admiral Vernon medal, (Cartagena)/Porto Bello (1741). Betts-306. 14.0 grams. Obverse legend reads THE.PRIDE.OF.SPAIN.HUMBLED.BY.AD.VERNON and the reverse legend reads HE.TOOK.PORTO.BELLO.WITH.SIX.SHIPS.ONLY, with Don Blas kneeling before Vernon on the obverse and six ships attacking Porto Bello on reverse, from a popular (and rather pompous) series of heroic medals struck in honor of Vernon's successes against the Spanish Main, AVF with minor rim-bumps.