Dated 20 November 1759 AD. By J. Kirk (sometimes given to T. Pingo) for the Society for Promoting Arts andmerce, copper. Obv: Britannia riding hippocamp right, crowned by Victory flying above left with BRITAIN TRIVMPHED HAWKEMANDED; with OFF BELLEISLE / NOV XX MDCCLIX in two lines in exergue. Rev: Night and Tempest at sides shielding kneeling France below from Britain flying above right with NIGHT above and TEMPEST in centre field with FRANCE left and BRITAIN right; with FRANCE RELINQUISHES / THE SEA / S P A C in three lines in exergue; Edge: plain. BCM 676; MI 2, p.706, 441; MH 1919, 364. 27.07 grams, 37mm. By inheritance from his late father. Property of a Jersey gentleman. The naval battle took place in Quiberon Bay off the coast of Belleisle (Belle Isle), France on 20 November 1759 between the French fleet of twenty-one s of the linemanded by Marshal de Conflans and twenty-four British smanded by Admiral Edward Hawke; the fleets were of nearly equal size but de Conflans lost six s sunk or aground, another captured and others damaged and scattered; the engagement broke the spirit of the French navy which took little effective part for the rest of the Seven Years War and ended French plans to invade England. [No Reserve]