An Augsburg silver medal commemorating the Sa ...

An Augsburg silver medal commemorating the Salzburg Protestants

Avers depicting a Salzburg family leaving their home beneath a banderole with a biblical inscription. Revers with a depiction of Frederick William I welcoming the refugees beneath a further banderole. Containing 17 round numbered and carefully coloured engravings depicting religious life in Salzburg with biblical inscriptions, decorated with carefully painted fruit to the reverse. The individual engravings arranged in a circle around a depiction of Christ as the good shepherd. The interior of the lid and base fitted with two hand-coloured maps of Salzburg and Prussia, one signed “Daniel Höckhinger exc. A.V.". In good condition with fresh colours. Including a medal commemorating the welcoming of the Salzburg emigrees inscribed "LASST HIER DIE GÜTER / GOTT GIBT SIE WIEDER". Diameter 4.5; H 0.5 cm, weight 23 g.

Marks of Daniel Höckhinger, ca. 1732.

** Provenance
Collection of Emil M. Huennebeck, Rhineland.