World Coins, Medals & Banknotes

WORLD COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS
AUSTRIA AND HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
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548 Maria Theresia (1740-1780), Centenary of the
Order of Maria Theresia, Copper Medal, 1857,
by Wenzel Seida, her bust right, Badge of Order,
legend around, 58mm (Julius 3258; Hauser 1571;
Würz 6041; Horsky 3776). Good very fine. £80-120
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549 Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), author and dramatist,
Bronze Memorial Medal, Vienna, 1889, by Anton
Scharff, bust three-quarters right, rev lyre and olive
spray, 56mm (Würz 3387); Adolf and Albertine
Bachofen von Echt, Bronze Medal, 1884, by Anton
Scharff, conjoined busts right, rev ornate shield
of arms, 49.5mm; Dr Carl Lind, aged 60, Bronze
Medal, 1891, by F X Pawlik, bust left, rev figures
of Medicine and Knowledge, 58mm. All with
patinated surfaces, extremely fine. (3) £80-120
551 Art, Léonce Bénédite (1856-1925), French art
historian, Bronze Tribute Medal, c.1912, by
Heinrich Kautsch (1859-1943), bust left, rev
face reflected in hand-mirror, quill and olive
spray, VERITE ET BEAUTE, 79mm, softly sculpted;
Rembrandt, Tercentenary 1906, Silver Medal, by
R Mayer, bust three-quarters right wearing soft
cap, rev young female artist, naked, stands before
windmill, edge SILBER 950; Georg Rafael Donner
(1693-1741), sculptor, bicentenary, 1893, Bronze
Medal, by Prof Stefan Schwartz, the sculptor at
work, to right, rev monument and legend, 69mm;
Society for the Advancement of Medallic Art, 1902-
1920, Bronze Medal, by Josef Unterholzer, 69.5mm;
Bronze Prize Medal of Pallas Athena, 55mm.
Generally very fine and better. (5) £80-120
Georg Rafael Donner (1693-1741) was one of Austria’s most
prolific sculptors of the baroque period; Léonce Bénédite was
director of the Musée du Luxembourg and later the first curator of
the Musée Rodin. The same design is also found on a plaquette.
552 “Betrothal”, Bronze Plaquette, c.1900-1910, by
Heinrich Kautsch (1859-1943), a young couple,
loosely draped, he about to place a ring on her
finger, rev wreath of roses, 55.5mm x 75mm;
A Maiden, uniface Bronze Medal, undated, by
Joseph Prinz, bust left with vine leaves in her hair,
60.5mm. Extremely fine. (2) £80-100
553 Portrait Plaquettes (4), János [Hans von] Koessler
(1853-1926), German composer, conductor and
teacher, small Bronze Plaquette, 1906, signed in
monogram, 59mm x 38mm (Niggl 1009); A Arroyo,
1906, by J Silva, 80.5mm x 59.5mm; Belgium, Emil
Braun, Mayor of Ghent, small square Bronze
Plaquette, 1914, by Carl de Cock, each a bearded
bust left, last rev garlanded shield before city
walls, 48mm; Belgium, Wolfers Frères, medallists,
jewellers and silversmiths, Inauguration of their
new premises, Bronze Medal, 1912, older man
seated and younger family, picking the fruits of the
company’s successes, rev legend in three bands,
65mm. Very fine to extremely fine. (4) £80-100
550 Art, The Vienna Künstlerhaus, Golden Jubilee,
1911, Rectangular Bronze Plaquette, by Arnold
Hartig, head and shoulders of Pallas Athena
right, holding statuette of Victory, 81.5mm x
72mm; The Schneider Brothers, Vienna, New
Year’s Bronze Plaquette, 1913, by Ludwig Hujer,
winged figure holds floral garland, standing
before a profile head to left, WIEN PROSIT
NEUJAHR 1913/ BRÜDER SCHNEIDER KUNST/
PRÄGE ü REDUCIERANSTALT… , 80mm x 55mm;
Commercial Exhibition, Vienna, 1912, octagonal
Bronze Medal, unsigned, diademed lady’s face
holding a lamp before her, rev legend, 44.5mm.
Extremely fine or virtually so. (3) £80-120
The Schneider Brothers were a famous Vienna firm of medal
manufacturers, die-sinkers, etc.
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554 Archduke Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), Crown
Prince of Austria and Hungary, Square (diamond)
Bronze Medal, 1916, by H Kautsch, bust of Archduke
Otto to right, rev crowned armorial shield, 55.5mm
(Würz 7035); Franz Joseph, Diamond Jubilee, 1848-
1908, Bronze Plaquette, by R Neuberger, conjoined
bust of the Emperor left, with his younger self, rev
crowned monogram, 45mm x 50mm (Hauser 1072).
Second very fine, the first extremely fine. (2) £80-100