Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Historical Medals and Banknotes

Germany, 80th Birthday of Prince Otto von Bismarck, 1895, a silver medal by Prof. A. Hildebrand, helmeted bust right, reverse tree, 30mm (BDM II, 493); together with XII Deutsches Bundesschiessen, Nuremberg, 1897, a silver medal by C. Balmberger, 41mm; The Sinking of the SS Lusitania, 1915, an English ‘copy’ of the iron medal by K. Göetz, 55mm (E. 1941A, type a); a uniface bronze medal, unsigned, bust of a male theologian left, 52mm [4]. Very fine and better, second toned, last with old collectors’ number inked in field (£30-50)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Historical Medals - The Property of a European Collector.

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Forrer was moved to remark that Hildebrand’s medal of Bismarck “is one of the most admired and finest productions of modern German medallic art”