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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 477

The Count Emery Hutten-Czapski Collection | Peace of Oliva, 3 May 1660, AR Medal, Between Sweden, Poland, Brandenburg and Emperor Leopold I, by Johann Höhn the Younger, POST BELLUM PLENA SURGIT PAX AUREA MESSE. HINC SPERAT MERITAM GEDANI CONSTANTIA FRUGEM, vista of the city of Danzig, including fortifications and the Vistula with ships at sail, radiant sun and rainbow above, a fenced corn field with hidden weapons in foreground, rev. Seventeen lines of text, coat-of-arms flanked by lions below, 79mm, 105.85g, 12h (Dutkowski-Suchanek 582a; Hutten-Czapksi 2148 [R3]), unfortunate test cut at 8 o'clock with other surface marks and rim bruising, otherwise toned with much residual lustre, a bolder very fine, very rare

Provenance
Sold by Direct Descent from The Count Emery Hutten Czapski Collection

This medallion contains an overt reference to John Casimir, who is praised in the inscription on the reverse.

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Sold for
$4,000

Starting price
$600