397, Lot: 787. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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GERMANY, Nürnberg (Stadt). Sigismund, Melchior, Ulrich, Seyfried, and Martin Pfinzing, statesmen, magistrates, and clerics. 1479-1554, 1484-1530, 1485-1545, and 1490-1552. Cast AR Medal (42mm, 31.04 g, 12h). By Schwarz. Dated 1519 (
in Roman numerals, though a later cast). CONCORDIAE FRATERNAE, jugate busts of the five brothers left / EFFIGIES/ SIGISMVNDI MELCH/IORIS PREPOSITI ECCLE/SIE SANCTI ALBANI MO/GVNTINENSIS VDALRICI. ABBATIS SANCTI PAVLI/ VALLIS LAVINII SEYFRI/DI ET MARTINI PFIN/CZING FRATRVM ANNO M CCCCC/XIX. Jeffrey Chipps Smith,
Nuremberg, A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 (Austin, 1983), 141. Good VF, toned, chased.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.