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  1. This is one that I wrote up on that other site. It is an incredible piece in my opinion. 

    Silver medal dated 1591
    On Happiness in Marriage and the New Year
    by Valetin Maler, father of Christian Maler

    Diameter: 45.77 mm
    Weight: 40.47 g.

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    Obverse: An old man sits on an armchair with a child in his right arm and a Bible in his left, r. next to it stands a naked boy with a palm branch; In the background stands a female figure holding a crown over the old man, in her left hand a flaming goblet
    Obverse Inscription:  BEATUS VIR QVI TIME T DNVM ETAMBVLAT IN VIIS EIVS PSA:128
    Translation: HAPPY MAN WHO TIMET unexpectedly that follow the path he PSALMS: 128
    Reverse: 17 lines of writing.

     

    This is the actual plate piece from the Ehrlanger catalog on Nuremberg medals. I purchased it as ex. Ehrlanger but raw. I sent it in to NGC and they agreed. Even though I sent plenty of proof it was from his catalog I still was more stressed than I should have been until I saw the proof.  

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    Erlanger Auction File 03.pdf

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  2. 9 minutes ago, robinjojo said:

    Latin American has produced some beautiful coins, among them the sunface 8 soles of Argentina, 1815 FL.  This is the very scarce variety with the "S" of the revolutionary soles punched over the colonial "R" of colonial reales.  Purchased from Karl Stephens in 1999.

    Struck at the Potosi, Bolivia Mint (PTS monogram on reverse).

    KM 15

    26.91 grams

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    Nice. Karl always has nice stuff.

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  3. Are there any talks of adding a forum category for medallic art? 

    Europe had been battered by the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War, exacting a heavy toll in money and lives. The Eighty Years' War was a prolonged religious war between Catholics and Protestants, evolving to a struggle for the independence of the Protestant-majority Dutch Republic, supported by Protestant-majority England, against Catholic-dominated Spain and Portugal. The Thirty Years' War was the deadliest of the European wars of religion, centered on the Holy Roman Empire. The war included many domestic and foreign players, siding either with the Catholic League or the Protestant Union. The Peace of Prague (1635) ended most religious aspects of the war, and the French–Habsburg rivalry took over prominence. With between 4.5 million and 8 million dead in the Thirty Years' War alone, and decades of constant warfare, the need for peace became increasingly clear.

    The Peace of Westphalia is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and Eighty Years' War (1568–1648), and brought peace to the Holy Roman Empire, closing a calamitous period of European history that killed approximately eight million people. The Holy Roman Emperor, the Spanish Monarchy, the kingdoms of France and Sweden, the United Provinces (Netherlands), and their respective allies among the princes of the Holy Roman Empire participated in these treaties.

    The negotiation process was lengthy and complex. Talks took place in two cities, because each side wanted to meet on territory under its own control. A total of 109 delegations arrived to represent the belligerent states, but not all delegations were present at the same time. Two treaties were signed to end the war in the Empire: The Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, with the Habsburgs and their Catholic allies on one side, battling the Protestant powers allied with France, which was Catholic but strongly anti-Habsburg under King Louis XIV. The separate Peace of Münster ended the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the United Provinces.

    I recently purchased the medal below. It is titled, The Peace of Westphalia and includes some exquisite imagery and die engraving. This was an important event in the history of Europe. Years of terror and war were, in theory, coming to an end and there was reason to be hopeful. One result of this event was that the United Provinces were officially recognized as a nation for the first time.

    Scholars of international relations have identified the Peace of Westphalia as the origin of principles crucial to modern international relations, including the inviolability of borders and non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states.

     

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    Dated 1648
     By E. Ketteler

    Weight: 36.4g
    Diameter: 57.6mm

    Schulman, Pax 96, Goppel 680
     

     

    Obverse: “alas, the lions joined together have come under the Lord's chariot”. Peace, holding reins, winged caduceus, and cornucopia, driving chariot pulled by two crowned lions right, one holding bundle of arrows in raised forepaw, the other holding a scepter; around, military and musical instruments cast aside; in two lines to right, PAX/HIS PANO BATAVA.

    Reverse: “The happiness of peace unto the Christian world, however devised or accomplished by such kingdoms and provinces, either alone or by ocean, land, or sea, is the security of public harmony, for which we hope and vow here in the monastery of Westphalia in the year 1648” in ten lines.

     

    Based on a draft from the Spanish delegation, the Münster mint-master Ketteler minted a medallion which shows the triumphal carriage of the goddess of peace being pulled by the Spanish and Dutch lions fighting spirit is transformed into a desire for peace.

    On the eve of his departure, Peñaranda, leader of the Spanish delegation at the Peace of Westphalia,  wrote to Spanish nobleman Don Luis de Haro, enclosing a copy of the medal which he and others had had designed and struck, at Münster , to celebrate the conclusion of the Peace.

    Fabio Chigi (later Pope Alexander VII) wrote in his diary on June 27, 1648, at his visit with the Spanish chief diplomat Peňaranda “che fa donar miei una medaglia per uno della sua pace di Olanda” (who gave me a medal on the peace with Holland ).

    Little is known of the engraver, Engelbert Kettler. Forrer’s Biographical Dictionary of Medallists merely states that he was mint-master at Osnabruck in 1637 an Munster from 1638-1656.

    This medal has the distinction of being included in the exhibition (and subsequent book) “50 Masterworks for the Golden Age” a collection of Dutch medals from the 17th century.

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    Allegory of the Peace of Westphalia, by Jacob Jordaens

     

    Feel free to post anything that you feel is relevant. 

    Sources:
    Wikipedia
    verschoor.com
    Biographical Dictionary of Medallists: by Leonard Forrer
    50 Masterworks from the Golden Age: by Nomos and John Endlich Antiquars

     

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  4. Well, how is a head on a platter for bizarre?

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    Someone else posted one like this one but I love the serpent consuming man on this. 

     

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    And to finish things up, how about a winged elephant? I wouldn't want to walk under him.

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  5. I finally pulled the trigger and moved over here this morning thanks to a gentle nudge.

    The core of my collection is German States Thalers, especially ones depicting the Wildman. My avatar is a head shot of one of my favorites. Not a particularly scarce variety but one of the more nicely struck pieces.

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