CNG 88, Lot: 2000. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hamburg (Hansestadt). Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet, philosopher, and historian. 1759-1805. AV Medal – ‘10 Dukaten’ (42mm, 34.80 g, 12h). Commemorating the Centennial of Schiller’s Birth and His Famous Poem. By F. Staudigel and C. Schnitzspahn. Dually-dated 1759 and 1859. FRIEDRICH V. SCHILLER GEB. D. 11 NOV. 1759, laureate and draped bust facing slightly left / (star) CONCORDIA SOLL IHR NAME SEIN (star) (Concordia shall be thy name), scene from Das Lied von der Glocke (Song of the Bell): the master craftsman calling fellow workers together to christen the bell to the belfry. Bell adorned with two angles holding wreath between them and inscribed VIVOS VOCO (I summon the living); in exergue, coat-of-arms between 1859 and NOV.11. Gaedechens 2104. Superb EF, a few light marks, with otherwise brilliant surfaces.