Deceptive peace proposals from Louis XIV; Silver Medal. Front: Louis XIV sitting on a chair under which a snake crawls; fishes with a fishing rod with paper with the inscription PAX hanging on Dutchmen; who are warned by Minerva. In the midst of the Dutch; a man with a lily is standing on the back of his coat and on his head snakes; within a circle; cut off: inscription. Reverse: hand with sword; wrapped with pennant and inscription and illuminated by celestial light; freedom hat and Bible lie on altar with a bundle of arrows on the side; laurel branch with snake between leaves falls to the ground. In the background Genoa; Palatinate and the Spanish Netherlands within a circle; cut off: inscription.; Rhineland-Palatinate; Genoa; Southern Netherlands; Louis XIV (King of France); Jan Schmeltzing (I); Leiden; 1693; silver (metal); striking (metalworking); d 5.6 cm x w 77.14 gr