CNG 108, Lot: 937. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Münster (Stadt). AR Medal (59mm, 36.32 g, 12h). The Treaty of Münster and the Peace of Westphalia. By E. Ketteler. Dated 1648 in Roman numerals. (flower) ET · IVNCTI · CVRRVM · DOMINÆ · SVBIERE · LEONES (alas, the lions joined together have come under the Lord’s chariot) (star stops), Peace, holding reins, winged caduceus, and cornucopia, driving triumphal biga of crowned lions right, one holding bundle of arrows in raised forepaw, the other holding a scepter; around, military and musical instruments cast aside; in two lines to right, PAX/HIS PANO BATAVA (the Hispano-Batavian peace) / PACIS · FŒLICITAS/ORBI : CHRISTANO : QVA RESTITVTA/QVA · AD ·INCITAMENTVM · DEMONSRATA/TOT · REGNIS · ET · PROVINCIIS/AD · VTRVMQVE · SOLEM · VTRVMQ3 · OCEANVM/TERRA · MARIQVE · PARTA · SECVRITAS/TRANQVILLITATIS · PVBLICÆ/SPE · ET · VOTO/MONASTERY · WESTPHA/ANNO · MDCXLVIII (the happiness of peace unto the Christian world, however devised or accomplished by such kingdoms and provinces, either alone or by ocean, land, or sea, is the security of public harmony, for which we hope and vow here in the monastery of Westphalia in the year 1648) in ten lines. Schulman, Pax 96. In NGC encapsulation, 4212891-002, graded MS 63.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 911987 (January 2012).