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CNG 108, Lot: 939. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Preußen (Königreich). Friedrich II der Große (the Great). 1740-1786. AV 6 Dukat Medal (38mm, 20.72 g, 12h). 50th Anniversary of the Protestant Church in Hirschberg, Lower Silesia. Dated 1759. Three churches on hillside, labelled WIEDERWIESE, HARPERSDORFF, and PROBSTHAIN, with two streams of parishioners proceeding to them from village to lower right; above, banner reading ACH GOTT WIE WEIT / View of the church in Hirschberg; above, banner reading GOTTLOBWIE NAH; in exergue, HIRSCHBERGISCHES 50 :/ LÄHRIGES EVANGELI :/ KIRCHEN IUBILÄUM. 1759. Friedensburg & Seger 4408. EF, light marks on edge.


From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection. Ex Künker 285 (2 February 2017), lot 235; reportedly ex Rumpf Collection (A. Hess, 27 January 1910), lot 735.