423, Lot: 520. Estimate $300. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hamburg (Stadt). AR Hochzeitsmedal (56mm, 60.56 g, 12h). By Johan Christoph Reteke. Manufactured in the 17th century. DES ALLERHŒCHSTEN GNADENHAND GESEGNE UNSERN STAND, bride and bridegroom standing on opposite sides of the wedding table with drawn curtains framing them; above, tetragrammaton and hands appearing from clouds / (heart) SEY GETREW BIS IN DEN TODT SO WILL ICH DIR DIE KRON DES LEBENS GEBEN, clasped right hands, emerging from clouds, over crowned heart set on crossed spade and scythe; additional clouds above; below, skull-and-crossbones set on ground and surrounded by flowers; I R to left. See Künker 308, lot 2803 (for another example). EF, toned, deposits in devices, some minor marks, evidence of chasing.

Ex Westfälische Auktionsgesellschaft 50 (10 February 2009), lot 2101.