Jubilee Medal of Brunswick, Germany Artist: Wilhelm Friedrich Kullrich (German, 1821–1887)

1861

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room
Medium

Silver

Dimensions

38 g, 12:00, 49.7 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Francis Bacon Trowbridge, B.A. 1887, L.L.B. 1890

Accession Number

2001.87.26576

Geography

Made in Berlin, Germany

Culture

German

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: TAUSENDIAEHRIGE IUBEL FEIER DER STADT BRAUNSCHWEIG 1861, standing female figure wearing robes holding shield with Brunswick lion and staff with laurel-circled "W"

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: UM VATERLANDS FREIHEIT UND EHRE ICH TAPFER UND EHRLICH MICH WEHRE, image of Lion Statue outside Brunswick Cathedral, St. Blasius surrounded by five crests bearing images of lions
Provenance
Reverend T. C. Trowbridge, to April 3, 1873; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1873–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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