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A Suite of Moral Medals

25. A Suite of Moral Medals, c.1690
A uniform series of three medals, each carrying a pair numbered scenes(1-6), relating to beauty, love and marriage.
Silver, 32 mm. (1.25 inches), unsigned, but almost certainly by Georg Hautsch.
Good extremely fine, evenly and most attractively toned.
£450 Buy
References: Goppl # 1043-44 (for the last two medals, with scenes 3-6).
Notes: There is a long tradition of Germanic medals carrying scenes of a biblical and moralistic nature.
Georg Hautsch (1664-1736) was a prolific medallist and coin engraver, working principally in Nuremberg and Vienna.

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-- BOOKS BY CHRISTOPHER EIMER --
British Commemorative Medals and their Values (1987)
An Introduction to Commemorative Medals (1989)
The Medallic Portraits of the Duke of Wellington (1994)
The Pingo Family and Medal Making in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1998)