today marks the start of Epiphany when the visit of the magi is remembered
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Lot 314 Date
of Auction: 13th September 2017 - Sold
for £220
Coins and Historical Medals from the Collection formed
by the late Revd. Charles Campbell DANZIG, New Year, 1635, a cast silver-gilt
medal by S. Dadler, Jesus holding orb, surrounded by clouds, iesvs sein wort, etc, legend in two
lines, rev. ein reiner
glavb, etc, the Three Wise Men bearing gifts attend Jesus, 54mm, 39.02g
(Maue 107; Wiecek 97; Gumowski 24). Light graffiti in reverse field,
otherwise good fine, very rare £200-300
Sebastian Dadler was born March 6, 1586 in Strasbourg and died July 6, 1657 in Hamburg
He
was a native of Strasbourg; appointed goldsmith to the court of Augsburg.
Worked at various times at Nuremburg, Hamburg and Dresden.
From 1634 Sebastian Dadler lived and worked in Gdansk/Danzig ,
which at that time belonged to the Kingdom of Poland. Here he married
Margarethe Neumann for the second time in 1647.
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