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Auction: 318 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1112

Iceland. Kingdom. Medallic Set for the Millennium of the Althing, 1930. Silver 10 and 5 Krónur and Bronze 2 Krónur, 1930. Struck privately at the Saxon State mint in Muldenhutten. The "King of Thule"/Elder seated l., blessing a kneeling boy and girl/Crowned Arms supported by Iceland's protective spirits; the first Norse permanent settler Ingólfur Arnarson standing facing/Art Deco dragon; Woman/Justice seated facing, holding aloft a torch/ Nordic cross quartering the landvættir - protective spirits: Gammur (the sea-eagle or griffin), Dreki (the dragon), Grithungur (the bull) and Bergrisi (the rock giant), who safeguarded Iceland from invasion by Danish king Harald Blatand ("Bluetooth") Gormsen. Bruce XM1-3. Choice About Uncirculated-Uncirculated. (3)

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$350