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Before 1550

1551 - 1600

1601 - 1650

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1751 - 1800


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1740

Coin

Source:

Title: Medal
Author: -
Publisher: -
Printer: -
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: -
Year: 1740
Links: [Scan 1].

Comments:

I have not been able yet to find the location of a ‘real coin’. The same illustration is used as a printer’s mark by Michael Blochberger.

Technique:

Casting?

References:

Gessner, Christian Friedrich (1740) Die so nöthig als nützliche Buchdruckerkunst und Schriftgiezerey, mit ihren Schriften, Formaten und allen dazu gehörigen Instrumenten volume 3, page 210-211 and shows an illustration of it in Volume 3, Table VI, number 1.

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