Death of Elisabeth Krauss

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 1286. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Nürnberg (Stadt). AR Vierteltaler Klippe. Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Death of Elisabeth Krauss. J P Werner, engraver. Undated issue (1789). FRAU ELISABETHA KRAUSSIN • (scrollwork) NAT • 1569 • DE • NAT 1639 (scrollwork), bust of Elisabeth Krauss left, wearing elaborate collar; W at truncation of arm; all within reeded border set within quadrate pearl and linear frame; ornate floralwork in corners / DAS/GEDAECHTNIS/DES/GERECHTEN/BLEIBET IM/SEEGEN in six lines across field; all within laurel wreath; • N • below; all within reeded border set within quadrate pearl and linear frame; ornate floralwork in corners. Kellner -; Erlanger 1790. In an NGC slab graded AU 58.