Auction 55b
Part II - Bruno Kirschner's Medal Collection and other Numismatic Items
May 9, 2017
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem., Israel
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Two Medals with Tetragrammaton - Victory of the Swedes at the Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631 / Visit of Peter the ...
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Sold for: $600
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Auction house commission: 23%
VAT: 17% On commission only
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Two Medals with Tetragrammaton - Victory of the Swedes at the Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631 / Visit of Peter the Great to Hamburg, 1713
1. Silver medal commemorating the victory of the Swedes (under King Gustav II Adolf) and the Protestants at the Battle of Breitenfeld, part of the Thirty Years' War, 1631.
Obverse: the tetragrammaton, inside a rising sun, surmounting the Latin legend "Dextera Tua Domine Percussit Inimicum" [Thy right hand shatters the enemy]. Surrounded by another legend. Reverse: Latin legend.
Diameter: 42 mm.
2. Medal commemorating the visit of Russian Tsar Peter the Great to Hamburg in 1713.
Obverse: tetragrammaton surrounded by the German legend "Sihe Der Huter Israel Schlafet Noch Schlummert Nicht" [He who keeps Israel Neither Slumbers nor Sleeps (Psalms 121, 4)]. On the bottom - "Im Ersten Monat / Des 1713 Iahrs" [In the first month / year of 1713].
Reverse: German legend.
Diameter: 35 mm.
Provenance: collection of Bruno Kirschner.
