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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 259

Austria, Leopold I, as Holy Roman Emperor (1657-1705), Cast Coronation Gold Medal of 7-Ducats, 1658, LEOPOLDVS . D G . ROM . IMPERATOR, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right wearing the Collar of the Golden Fleece, rev. CONSILIO. ET. INDVSTRIA, all-seeing Eye shining down on crowned device within wreath, hands holding swords emerging from clouds at sides; High-relief portrait, 23.90g, 12h (Mont. 857var.), removed from a mount with smoothing to rims at 10, 2 and 6 o'clock, and with further old tooling in fields to remove casting lines, otherwise an emphatic later-casting high-relief portrait, a bolder very fine, extremely rare

Provenance
Spink 339 (NYINC Sale), 14 January 2018, lot 36

Virgil Brand, Sotheby's (Zurich), 1 July 1982, lot 140 - a late cast, chased, very fine

Leo Hamburger Auction (Frankfurt), 17 September 1921, lot 221

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Sold for
$7,000

Starting price
$1500