CNG 93, Lot: 1918. Estimate $300. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Preußen. temp. Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1797-1840. Tin Box Medal – Steckmedaille (51mm, 32.41 g). Commemorating the Defeat of Bonaparte by the Holy Alliance. By J. T. Stettner. Issued 1814. (star) FRANZ · I · KAI : V · OESTER : ALEXANDER · I · KAI : V · RUSSLAND · FR : WIL : III KÖ : V · PREUSSEN, bust right of Franz facing busts left of Alexander and Friedrich Wilhelm, all in military attire / SCHOEN WIE DIE DEUTSCHE EICHE GRÜN MEINES VOLKES GLÜCK (beautiful like the German oak green my people’s fortune), Germania standing right, holding oak-wreathed-entwined spear and shield inscribed GER/MA/NIA. Medal is hollow, with twelve two-sided roundels within. Each roundel features a hand-colored lithographed battle scene side, and a handwritten text side, all related to the expulsion of the French army from Russia and Germany in 1814. Förschner 35; Preßler 38. Near EF, toned.