423, Lot: 507. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUSTRIA, Holy Roman Empire. temp. Ferdinand I. Archduke, 1519-1556; Emperor, 1556-1564. Cast AR Medal (39mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Memento mori issue. Unsigned, but by Ludwig Neufahrer. Putti reclining left on ground line, resting elbow on skull; in background, open vault, stump with new growth, and city view; TEMPVS EDAX RE/RV TV QVE INV/IDIO VETV=/(tendrils) in four lines in exergue / ERS ERIT SVBITO QVI MODO CROESVS ERAT O SOLOM SOLOM, Solon, standing right, conversing with Croesus, enthroned left; all set within ornate medieval audience hall; trilobe stops. F.P. Weber, Aspects of death and correlated aspects of life in art, epigram, and poetry, 3rd ed. (New York: 1918), p. 509; Erbstein 517. Good VF, toned, fields lightly chased.

Ex Peus 398 (28 April 2009), lot 2222.