282, Lot: 510. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GERMANY, Hamburg (Stadt). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet, philosopher, and historian. 1759-1805. AR Medal (42mm, 29.90 g, 12h). Commemorating the Centennial of Schiller’s Birth and His Famous Poem. By F. Staudigel and C. Schnitzspahn. Dually-dated 1759 and 1859. FRIEDRICH v · SCHILLER GEB · D · 11 NOV · 1759, laureate and draped bust facing slightly left / (star) CONCORDIA SOLL IHR NAME SEIN (star) (
Concordia shall be thy name), scene from
Das Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell): the master craftsman calling fellow workers together to christen the bell to the belfry. Bell adorned with two angles holding wreath between them and inscribed VIVOS VOCO (
I summon the living); in exergue, coat-of-arms between 1859 and NOV.11. Gaedechens 2104. EF, attractively toned.