CNG 87, Lot: 2217. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SWITZERLAND, Kanton Bern. Bern. AR Medal (56mm, 57.60 g, 12h). Commemorating the 300th Anniversary of the Reformation in Bern. By A. Bovy. Dated 1828. Civic deity of Bern seated right, holding oval shield and extending hand toward Religion standing left, holding open Bible set upon pulpit; in background, cherub flying slightly left, head right, holding billowing drapery inscribed ZWINGLI (Huldrych Zwingli, leader of the Reformation in Switzerland) / NICHT ERSCHÜTTERT NUR CEREINICT ([our faith] not lost, merely purified), façade of the münster of Bern; in three lines in exergue, DRITTE EVANG: IUBELFEIER/IN BERN/MDCCCXXVIII (300th anniversary of the Reformation in Bern). Wunderly 1332. EF, toned.