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GOETZ: K 65 Silver Van Wien Birthmedal, 1910
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K 65 JOHANNA VAN WIEN, 1910, Cast Silver, 55mm., 170.70g., Edge-punch; “KGoeTz, Silber”, Gussfrisch, RRR.
Goetz was commissioned by the Dutch Van Wien family to commemorate their daughter’s birth on April 3, 1910.
Obverse: Inscribed, J and S, Full-sailed schooner sailing past windmill and tulip field. Cartouche reads in Dutch “EENE VOORSPOEDIGE VAART” (A Prosperous Journey.”) KGoeTz below.
Reverse: Flower frond over name “JOHANNA VAN WIEN” and “GEBOREN-IN-MÜNCHEN AM 3.APRIL 1910 (Born in Munich on April 3, 1910). The inscription lozenge below is surrounded by zodiac wheel above, spring wildflowers to each side and two flowers at the base. The lozenge sits upon a scrolled cartouche with the inscription; “GESEGNET SEIST-DU-VOM-EWIGEN-O-UNSERE-TOCHTER ( Blessed be you by the Lord, oh’ our daughter).
It could be interesting to note that Goetz had used the wrong zodiac sign of the bull for this birth date. Aries, the Ram, would have been the correct zodiac birth sign for this date.
Goetz was commissioned by the Dutch Van Wien family to commemorate their daughter’s birth on April 3, 1910.
Obverse: Inscribed, J and S, Full-sailed schooner sailing past windmill and tulip field. Cartouche reads in Dutch “EENE VOORSPOEDIGE VAART” (A Prosperous Journey.”) KGoeTz below.
Reverse: Flower frond over name “JOHANNA VAN WIEN” and “GEBOREN-IN-MÜNCHEN AM 3.APRIL 1910 (Born in Munich on April 3, 1910). The inscription lozenge below is surrounded by zodiac wheel above, spring wildflowers to each side and two flowers at the base. The lozenge sits upon a scrolled cartouche with the inscription; “GESEGNET SEIST-DU-VOM-EWIGEN-O-UNSERE-TOCHTER ( Blessed be you by the Lord, oh’ our daughter).
It could be interesting to note that Goetz had used the wrong zodiac sign of the bull for this birth date. Aries, the Ram, would have been the correct zodiac birth sign for this date.
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At RRR do you know how many were cast? And were any cast in bronze or struck?
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19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
Cathy
I've never seen another one so I can't answer your question. I did look back through my auction catalog library for large Goetz collections and this medal doesn't appear in any of them. I know that this medal came from the Boettcher collection out of Hamburg. He started collecting Goetz in the late 50's so it is possible that this piece was there for the past 60 years. Kienast has a picture of the medal in his Volume I and it is quite possible that this is the same medal. It is unlikely that Kienast actually had this medal "in hand" for photographing since his description does not mention the metal composition and he has the dimension wrong (this is a Kienast pattern I have picked up on over the past couple of years.)
I still want to have the holdings lists from the major museum collections in the US and Europe in order to help me ascertain rarity. In this case, the medal is nearly four ounces of silver and if there were more, it would only be one or two due to the cost of producing them. Silver pieces were usually only made for a select few of the immediate family.
karlgoetzmedals.com
Shep