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Karl Ludwig 1801

harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Very pleased to come across this Guillemard medal as an unexpected listing.

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Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
    Wonderfull detail on this piece!

    Care to share it's history in more detail?

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    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I actually did not know the history. The medal interested me because of its creator, not its subject matter. Your query, however, prompted me to attempt some research.
    I believe this is a death medal for Prince Karl Ludwig of Baden. I did not have time to do more research, so I do not know why the Latin obverse seems to cite him as having done something critical in saving the Austrian Hungarian Empire.

    The iconography of the reverse, particularly the tree stump, seems to confirm this as a death medal.

    Prince Karl Ludwig died on December 16, 1801. His descendants include many significant royals, including Juan Carlos of Spain.
    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    Very niceimage
    My Medals collection

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