CNG 108, Lot: 950. Estimate $500. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY. AR Medal (50mm, 59.08 g, 12h). Desire for Peace. By Samuel Kirchner, after Sebastian Dadler. Dated 1631 KS. GOTT GEBE FRIED IM GANTZEN :AND/ ERHALTE IEHR WEHR VND NEHR STAN D, Pax, holding sword and olive branch, and Industry, holding shovel and beehive, facing one another; above, radiant dove over IVDMIÆ; in exergue, MDCXXXI/ ~ K S ~ / IN IESV PAX ET CONCORDIA, radiant youthful Christ seated facing, holding globus cruciger and raising hand in benediction, within arched cloud decorated with cherubs. Maué 13 and note (for 1628 original by Dadler); Elsen 96, lot 2039 = Künker 115, lot 3241 (same dies). See also Forrer III, p. 161-2 (for Kirchner’s signature KS). Good VF, toned, edge bumps. Extremely rare.

Maué notes a medal of identical types dated 1631, but produced by Johann Kittel. Presumably, this refers to the present type, but as Kittel was born in 1656, he could not have been the engraver. We retain the suggestion proposed by Elsen of Samuel Kirchner.