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297, Lot: 594. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1500. 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’ (41mm, 34.92 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), 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; in exergue, coat-of-arms between 1859 and NOV.11. Gaedechens 2104. Choice EF, proof-like surfaces, hairline scratches.