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BELGIUM:Collection of 14 different 59mm bronze medals of the famous Belgian medalist J. Wiener including; Catedral de Cordoba (Spain), Dom zu Köln (Germany), Convento de Batalha (Portugal), Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Belém (Portugal), Maison de sûreté cellulaire à Gand (Belgium), Basilica de San Paolo a Roma (Italy), Maison d'Arrêt cellulaire a Louvain (Belgium), église de Saint-Front a Périgueux (France), St. Olav domkirke Trondheim (Norway), Stadhuis van Amsterdam (Netherlands), Cathédrale de Reims (France), Duomo di Siena (Italy), Maison de sûreté à Saint-Gilles (Belgium), Eglise Saint-Etienne à Caen (France), a group of wonderfully designed and highly detailed medals, these have been lightly cleaned, but are still very attractive, all in EF or better quality, retail value $2000, lot of 14 medals. The Wieners were a Jewish-Flemish family of extraordinary artists and die engravers. Jacob Wiener (1815-1899), the Belgian medalist and engraver, who generally signed his medals as J. Wiener, but known more commonly as Jacques, was the eldest of three brothers [the others were Léopold (1823-1891) and Charles (1832-1888)], all of whom excelled in the art of medal engraving. Jacques Wiener he decided to engrave medals representing the exterior and interior of monuments with a degree of precision of details that had not yet been attempted. He undertook what was to be a series of 50 medals, each 59 mm in diameter, entitled "Medals of the Most Remarkable Edifices of Europe", to represent the principal monuments of Europe. Of these, the majority were cathedrals, churches and mosques, and one synagogue. Only 41 medals were issued, some of which were done in conjunction with his brother Charles.

Estimate: 800- 1,000 USD