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397, Lot: 791. Estimate $300.
Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Sachsen-Albertinische Linie (Kurfürstentum und Herzogtum). Johann Friedrich I der Großmütige (the Magnanimous). 1532-1547. AR Medal (41.5mm, 22.07 g, 12h). Schmalkaldik League. By Wolf Milicz. Dated 1536 (in Roman numerals, though a later cast). CONIPAFRAIT WRA IOAN FRIDERICI ELECTORIS DVCIS SAXONIAE MDXXXVI, mantled and collared bust facing slightly right / NON FRVSTRA CLADIVM CESTAT NAM DEI MINISTER EST VLTOR AD IR, soldier standing before three ornately plumed mounted knights; four fallen soldiers on ground. Katz 270. VF, toned, fields lightly chased.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from H. Betts, May 1985.