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Auction 6  9 Oct 2018
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Lot 173
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Austria-Hungary > Vienna: Salomon Mayer Rothschild 70th birthday bronze medal, 1844; by Konrad Lange; weight: 64.6g; size: 49mm.obverse: family's coat of arms; legend "Für Seine Freunde Zur Feyer Seines Siebenzigsten Geburtsfestes IX. Sept. MDCCCXLIV" ['For his friends on his seventieth birthday celebrations 9 Sept. 1844']. Reverse left facing Salomon; legend "S[alomon] M[ayer] Baron von Rothschild | Born 9 Sept. 1774". Forrer vol. 3 pg. 297-298. Lange, was the assistant-engraver at the Vienna mint. Salomon Mayer (1774-1855) established S.M. von Rothschild bank; 1st Jew to receive honorary Austrian citizenship (1843).
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