CNG 87, Lot: 2213. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWEDEN. Gustav III. 1771–1792. AR Medal (56mm, 69.13 g, 12h). Commemorating the Birth and Baptism of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf. By G. Ljungberger. Dated 1778 in Roman numerals. GUSTAVUS III · D · G · REX SVECIAE ·, armored and draped bust right / DEO ET PATRIAE · (for both God and the fatherland), Gustav standing right, presenting Crown Prince Gustav Adolf before altar and to the four estates of Sweden: the church and the agrarian to left, the nobility and the citizenry to right; in three lines in exergue, GUST · ADOLPH · PRINC · HAER ·/NAT · D · I · N · BAPT · D · X · NOV · MDCCLXXVIII · (Gustav Adolf, the Crown Prince, born on the 1st and baptized on the 10th of November). Hildebrand II, 49. Good VF, toned, a few rim nicks and marks under the tone.