Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
August 2015 ANA Auction - Sessions B-C 14 August 2015
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SWEDEN. Gold & Silver Alfred Nobel, Swedish Medical Society Medals, 1952 & 1962.
2 pieces in lot. Includes: (2) Alfred Nobel Swedish Medical Society Medals, one in gold (20.27 gms) and one in silver plate (11.56 gms). Bust of Alfred Nobel in frock coat facing left, "ALFR. NOBEL" to left, Latin numerals representing his date of birth and death to right; Reverse: " INVENTAS VITAM JUVAT EXCOLUISSE PER ARTES" (And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery) Aesculapius cup and serpent, wreath behind, "F. I." at either side of base of caduceus. Edge marks: gold piece: "MJV GULD 1962"; silver piece: "MJV SILVER 1952". In the spring, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities) convenes their Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, where each member of the Committee receives a medal in silver. The recurring members can exchange ten medals in silver or silver-gilt for one medal in gold. Both medals are essentially as struck. We could find no recent record of a gold medal having sold at auction. ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $1000.00- $1500.00
2 pieces in lot. Includes: (2) Alfred Nobel Swedish Medical Society Medals, one in gold (20.27 gms) and one in silver plate (11.56 gms). Bust of Alfred Nobel in frock coat facing left, "ALFR. NOBEL" to left, Latin numerals representing his date of birth and death to right; Reverse: " INVENTAS VITAM JUVAT EXCOLUISSE PER ARTES" (And they who bettered life on earth by their newly found mastery) Aesculapius cup and serpent, wreath behind, "F. I." at either side of base of caduceus. Edge marks: gold piece: "MJV GULD 1962"; silver piece: "MJV SILVER 1952". In the spring, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden (one of Europe's largest and most prestigious medical universities) convenes their Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, where each member of the Committee receives a medal in silver. The recurring members can exchange ten medals in silver or silver-gilt for one medal in gold. Both medals are essentially as struck. We could find no recent record of a gold medal having sold at auction. ALMOST UNCIRCULATED.
Estimate: $1000.00- $1500.00