Attractive Steckmedaille

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 1272. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Nürnberg (Stadt). 1814. AR Steckmedaille. Victory of the Allies over Napoleon. Johann Thomas Stettner, medallist. Busts of Franz I of Austria, Alexander I of Russia, and Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia; Stettner. fec: Nbg: below / Germania standing right, helmeted with radiate dove, holding oak-wreathed staff and shield; St below. Medal is hollow, with a strip of twelve two-sided roundels within, six of hand-colored lithographed battle scenes, six of text, all related to the expulsion of the French army from Russia and Germany in 1814. Förschner 35; cf. Preßler 38 (in tin). VF, a few light field marks. Rare with the strip of roundels in perfect condition.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 1966; Golden Sale Auction (Schulman-Kreisberg, 21 March 1962), lot 2063.