Medal - Hamburg freed from the plague
Features
| Location |
Free Hanseatic city of Hamburg
(German States)  |
|---|---|
| Type | Commemorative medals |
| Year | 1714 |
| Composition | Pewter |
| Weight | 22 g |
| Diameter | 44 mm |
| Thickness | 2.7 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 53396 |
| References | Gaed# 1734 Otto Christian Gaedechens. Hamburgische Münzen und Medaillen. Johann August Meissner, Hamburg, Germany (2 volumes). Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. |
Commemorative issue
To celebrate the end of the pest disease in Hamburg
Obverse
View over the city and port of Hamburg with ships, with an angel flying over it holding the arms of Hamburg
Script: Latin
Lettering:
SEDET SVB PROTECTIONE ET TVTELA ALTISSIMI
PS.91.
HAMBVRGVM A PESTE
LIBERATVM.
Engraver: Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer
Reverse
Lanscape scene with sun and rainbow
Script: Latin
Lettering:
POST FVNERA MVNERA COELI.
GEN.IX.V.XIII
Engraver: Lazarus Gottlieb Lauffer
Edge
Plain
Mint
Nuremberg, GermanySee also
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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