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Auction: 4026 - Ancient, English and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 629

Sweden, Gustav II Adolf (1611-32), laudatory medal of the kind and commemorating the arrival of the Swedish army in Pomerania, 1630, gold, 41 mm., 36.05g., unsigned, cuirassed bust of the king half right wearing a falling lace collar and sash of order across breast, =gvstavs adolphvs d g svec goth vand rex magn princ finl dvx eth et carel ing d, rev. crowned lion rampant left brandishing a sword within three concentric circles of legend, das avg gottes des herrn etc (Hild.224), cast and chased, traces of mount at twelve o'clock but extremely fine and extremely rare Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance Oslo Mynthandel 10 November 2001 lot 569 Galeries des Monnaies Dusseldorf 2 November 1973 lot 1159

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