Marking the Treaty of Hubertusburg

285, Lot: 538. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Preußen (Königreich). Friedrich II. 1740-1766. AR Medal (44mm, 21.86 g, 12h). Commemorating the Treaty of Hubertusburg. By J. L. Oexlein. Dated 1763 in Roman numerals. IAM REDIRE AVDET (now she dares to return...), Germania standing facing, head right, holding scepter and grain ear; mountains and plowman in background; in two lines in exergue, GERMANIA/PACATA (...with Germany being at peace) / NVNCIA PACIS (the messenger of Peace), view of the Hubertusburg palace; above, Fama (Rumor) flying right, blowing in one trumpet and holding another; D · 15 · FEBR · MDCCLXIII · in exergue. Betts 446; Schulman, Pax 595; Olding 931; Henckel 1658. EF, toned.

A global military conflict between 1756 and 1763, the Seven Years’ War (known in North America as the French and Indian War) involved most of the great powers of the time, and affected Europe, Central America, the western coast of Africa, India, the Philippines, and the aforementioned colonial America.