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ZoharZohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Impulse buy. Seems old. Uniface, 72mm. Seems like a death medal.

Any clue as to background?

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Haven't found references to the medal, but Robert Estienne was a 16th century printer and classical scholar in Paris. He was a former Catholic who became a Protestant late in his life and the first to print the Bible divided into standard numbered verses.

    Here's a Wiki link.

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  • tewcdtewcd Posts: 245
    I see a mention in this Google Book of a medal done by one Leon Deschamps in 1897 of Robert Estienne. The document says that a picture can be found in M.R. Marx's "Les Medailleurs francais contemporains", plate 29, no's 10 & 12. See: Numismatic Circular

    Of course it seems that Marx's book isn't available online, but I did find a WorldCat listing of libraries that may have it.

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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    It is a galvano reproduction of the medals Die face. If they look like a mirror image of the medal they are the Mold face I believe. These are used by the sculptor to view his work on incomplete dies, also they are Often used in Museums to show both sides on displays without owning the medal . To me yours Actually looks like a newer cleaned up version. The reverses usually look like a slag pit. Here is a Pistrucci Victoria galvano from my collection as an example of what I mean.

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  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You guys are remarkable. Thank you.
    Habsburg Talers

    TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
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