1740

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Source:

Title: Medal
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Vestner
Location: Nuremberg
Year: 1740
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2].

Comments:

William Blades (1869) describes the obverse as ‘The figure of Germany with the Imperial crown on her head, sitting on a throne, her right hand holding the sceptre, and her left a horn of plenty. At her feet are the globe and a sword, emblems of power and justice. Wisdom, around whose head rays of divine light play, is placing a laural wreath upon the head of Germany, an olive branch being in her left hand. Between the two figures is the Roman eagle. To the left is a printing-press, and surrounding the whole is the legend, AVSPICIO IMPERII SVMMAE DECVS ADDITVR ARTIS. In the Exergue FELIX GERMANIA, beneath which is v. for Vestner the engraver.’ Number: 2N (illustration page 210, description page 35)’.

Also described in Johann Hieronymus Lochner’s Samlung merckwürdiger Medaillen: (1740, volume 4, page 385-386). Christian Friedrich Gessner’s Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiezerey, mit ihren Schriften, Formaten und allen dazu gehörigen Instrumenten (1741) describes the coin in volume 3, page 212-213 and shows an illustration of it in Volume 3, Table IV, number 3.

Technique:

Casting?

Literature:

References:

Blades, William (1869) A list of medals, jettons, tokens, & c., in connection with printers and the art of printing. London. (see Plates 2N).