Watch List notes:

Germany, Nurnberg, the Peace of Paris and Victory over France, tin or white metal box medal, 1815, by Johann Thomas Stettner, Pax stands in rural landscape with rising sun behind her, on the base a triumphal arch, EURE THATEN BEWUNDERN MILLIONEN – 1815, containing 7 double-sided linked roundels with hand-coloured engraved images, and descriptive end-pieces, all links intact and still linked to lid and base, 50mm. (Pressler 434; Julius 3512; Koch 2839), in the original rectangular case of issue, front cover with rural ploughing scene and in distance, a cannon driven away towards a thunderstorm; back cover allied soldiers attack figure of Napoleon, whose lower half has turned into a monster; and with a 47pp. explanatory booklet, 'Merkwaardigste oorlogsgebeurtenissen vanhet Iaar 1815', in exceptional condition, medal virtually mint state and likewise the roundels, exceptionally rare as a complete item
(600-800 GBP)