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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1421

Germany. 1790 Coronation of Leopold II as Holy Roman Emperor Silver Medal. XF. Mont-2217. 48mm/43.8gms By I.N. Wirt. Obv: Conjoined busts of Ferdinand IV and his wife Mary Caroline. Rev: Allegorical Pannonia dips bowl into flame with river god Danubius reclining at left. Struck to commemorate arrival of the King of Naples and his wife at the Hungarian coronation of Leopold II in Bratislava. A beautiful medal with prooflike fields and light scattered marks. A gold example sold at a 2010 German auction for 13,000 Euros.

Sold for
$300