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Nomos 13

7 October 2016
Zunfthaus zur Saffran, Zürich
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Estimate: 1400 CHF
Hammer Price:  2000 CHF
Lot 44

Netherlands, The Dutch Republic. Amsterdam. Medal (Silver, 59mm, 58.68 g 12), on the Treaty of Münster and the Peace of Westphalia, by J. Blum in Bremen, 1648. ET JUNCTI CURRUM DOMINÆ SUBIERE LEONES / PAX - HISPANO - BATAVA (=the united lions pull the chariot of their mistress; Peace between Spain and Batavia) Pax, radiate, holding the staff of Mercury and a horn of plenty, driving chariot, drawn by the lions of Spain and the Dutch Republic, to the right, over scattered arms; in exergue, NUNC PAX AMBOROM / SUPER ARMA ABJECTA / TRIUMPHAT / blúm a brem (=Peace now marches in triumph over discarded arms). Rev. Before a view of Amsterdam, on a banner supported by three putti - the one on the right holding a palm branch and the one on the left an olive branch - , inscription in eight lines: Pacis Felicitas / ad Utrumq Solem, / Utrumq Oceanum, / Terra mariq Parta, / Perpetuæ Tranquil - / litatis Publicæ / Spe et Voto / Anno M.D.C.xlviii. (=Happy Peace, from East to West, Ocean to Ocean, and on land and sea, with the hope and desire for a tranquility both universal and durable); in exergue, Amstelodami. Deth./Ord. 25. Jungk 20. PiN 99. Van Loon II, pp. 301-303, iv. Rare. Toned, with the usual die break across the reverse. Some minor marks and with edge filing, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Künker 154, 23 June 2009, 1928.

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