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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 183

HANS REINHART, the ELDER (1510-1581)
The Tempting of Adam and Eve - The Crucifixion. Medal, dated 1536. Saxony. Silver, gilt with silver solder curlicue detailing, 67.6mm. ET. SICVT. IN ADAM. OMNES. MORIVNTVR. IT. ET. IN. CHRISTVM. OMNES. VIVIFICABVNTVR. VNVSQVISQVE. IN ORDER. SVO. At the center, Adam and Eve by the Tree of Knowledge, in it a monkey, cat and rooster, grasping the forbidden fruit as the Satanic serpent slithers up the tree, an unicorn, ox, Donkey, pig, deer and hare in the Garden, the Creation of Woman at the left, the Expulsion from Paradise at the right, outside the coat of arms of the electorate and the state, below Rotulus with IO(H)ANN(E)S. FRIDERICVS. ELECTOR. DVX. SAXONI(A)E. FIERI. FECIT, rev. VT. MOSES. EREXIT. SERPE(N)TE(M), ITA. CHRISTIAN(VS). IN. CRVCE. EXALTATVS. ET. RESVSCITATVS, CAPVT. SERP(N)TIS. CO(N)TRIVIT, VT. SALVARET. CREDE(N)TES, The Crucifixion and scenes depicting Mary Magdalene, John and Mary, on the right a captain on horseback, in the background on the left a rider from heavenly Temple of Jerusalem dashes off to catch up with the soul of the purified thief and on the right a devil cat is waiting for the soul of the hardened thief, on the far right the resurrection of Christ, below Rotulus with the motto of the princes .SPES. MEAS. IN. DEO. EST. G Habich "The German Show Coins of the XVI Century", [Munich, 1931], 1968. Merseberger 543. Wallenstein NNB 64.5, Fig. 2. Loop removed at 12:00 and a few old scratches in field. Still a Very Fine contemporary cast. Ex Kölner Münzkabinett Sale 111 (Koln), May 4, 2019, lot 1103.
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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