Watch List notes:

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WORLD MEDALS, Turkey (Medals illustrative of both Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, and the wars against them), Matthias Johan, Graf von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), The Heroic Defence of Corfu against the Turks, 1716, Copper Medal, by P H Müller, struck at Nürnberg, armoured and bewigged bust right, rev aerial plan of Corfu showing the range of the artillery, AVSPICIIS VENETVM VIRTVS GERMANA TVETVR - CORCYRAM D XXII AVG A MDCCXVI, 38mm (Voltolina 1389; Erlanger 2874; Knyp 7287). About extremely fine and very rare.
Schulenburg had fought against the Ottoman Turks for the Imperial Army in 1687-1688, but here he was recruited by Venice to defend Corfu against them. For his success the Serenissima erected a statue and awarded him a pension of 5000 Ducats a year.

Estimate: £250-350