A rare Augsburg silver medallion commemorating the victories of Frederick the Great
Decorated to the front with Frederick II on horseback before a military encampment. To the reverse a shield with the Prussian eagle beneath the eye of God and an outstretched arm issuing from a cloud and holding a set of scales with two books in the left bowl (one entitled "Codex Iuris Fridericianum") and a sword with a wreath in the right bowl. The interiors of the lid and base inset with depictions of Officers on horseback, labelled General Ziethen and General v. Mayr. Containing forty round numbered hand-coloured engravings depicting historic events and battles from the time of Frederick the Great, ending with the Treaty of Hubertusburg on 15th February 1763. The depiction to the inside of the lid with slightly muted colours, otherwise in good condition. The mounted title sheet signed "Abraham Remshart Silbertr(echsler) excud(it) Aug(usta) Vind(elicorum". Diameter 4.6, H 0.7 cm, weight 19 g.
Marks of Abraham II Remshard, ca. 1763.
Frederick the Great was so proud of his civil procedure code "Codex Iuris Fridericianum", which was begun in 1748 but only published in 1781, that he referred to it in this medal even before the work's completion.
Provenance
Collection of Emil M. Huennebeck, Rhineland.
Literature
For information on Remshard cf. Thieme/Becker, vol. 28, p. 151.
Exhibitions
Ein rheinischer Silberschatz, Schmuck und Gerät aus Privatbesitz, Cologne, May - July 1980, no. 456, illus. p. 312 f.