Commemorative Medals, Jewish interest, Germany, Cologne, the consecration of the Synagogue, copper medal, 1861, by Jacques Wiener, the exterior façade, rev. the interior, with legend in Hebrew to either side, 60mm. (Reinecke 61), obverse scuffed, otherwise good very fine
The Synagogue was designed by the architect Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802-1861), who had worked since 1833 on the restoration of Cologne Cathedral, and it was to be his last work. It was destroyed during the Third Reich.
(150-200 GBP)