CNG 87, Lot: 2147. Estimate $2000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hamburg (Hansestadt). AV Medal – ‘5 Dukaten’ (39mm, 17.35 g, 12h). By P. H. Gödecke. Struck 1753. ES SEGNE GOTTES HAND (Bless it, Hand of God), view of the city from the River Elbe; above, fasces between garlanded laurel branch and caduceus; in two lines in exergue, DEN WEHR LEHR UND/NEHR STAND (the military, education, and agriculture) / SO DIENT DAS SCHÖNE BAND (), Legislation seated facing on canopied throne, holding fasces and rayed tablet of laws (her attributes); to left, rayed hands praying on altar (piety); beehive (industriousness) to right; in two lines in exergue, GOTT UND DEM/VATERLAND (God and for the Fatherland). Gaedechens p. 304, 2; Hamburger (2 March 1908), lot 3717. EF, lustrous, a few light marks. Very rare.

From the Clarence & Helen Zaar Maritime Collection.