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MEDAL STRUCK BY CHARLES XII.--RUDBECK'S ATLANTICA.

Although no numismatist, yet, being resident at Stockholm, I have taken
steps to enable me to reply to L.'s Query (Vol. ii., p. 408. of "NOTES AND
QUERIES") respecting Charles XII.'s medal in commemoration of the victory
at Holowzin.

No copy of the medal exists in the cabinet of the Royal Museum of
Antiquities; but in that belonging to the National Bank, there is a very
fine example of it in copper, and the inscriptions are as follow:

On the Reverse:--"_Silvæ. Paludes. Aggeres. Hostes. Victi._"

In the Exergue:--"_Moschi ad Holowzinum victi A. 1708 3/14 Jul._"

And round the margin the verse from Lucan in question:

"_Victrices Copias Alium Laturus In Orbem_:"

with the substitution of _copias_ for _aquilas_, recorded by Voltaire and
criticised by L.

The same inscriptions are given in Bergh's _Beskrifning öfver Svenska mynt
och Skädepenningar_, 4to., Upsala, 1773; only he adds, that the inscription
in the margin is only found on some copies.