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Online Auction 5  11 March 2016
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Lot 593

Starting price: 3000 CHF
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USA 1942 (1000 Fine Gold) 24 Carat:40 millimeters. 79.67 grams. Obv: tables of numbers and letters with dates 1492, 1961 and 1942 around, as well as the inscription S. 40 - 80 G. at the top (referring to the size and weight of the medal). All rows, columns and diagonals add up to 16, as do the digits of the three years noted around the periphery. Rev: stars and numerals arranged in a pattern highly suggestive of the Sephirothic Tree of the later Kabbalists.
"Edge engraved 1000 fine pure gold"
At the center, around a cross-like device, are the numbers 31 and 461538, both of which are significant to numerologists. Issued by Albert Wiss, whose name is inscribed in the lower obverse field above the date 1942. Bright, lustrous surfaces with no abrasions save for some wispy hairlines from handling.
Medals of this type could be used to predict future events. Of numerology, Kabbalistic or perhaps even Masonic significance. (See Stacks Bowers Auction January 2012-Lot 6308) (WAS LOT 651 AUCTION 2) Weight value 26.01.16 $2876 metal only.
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