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Auction 165 4-5 Dec 2019
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World Historical Medals from Various Properties
GERMANY, Foundation of the Bank des Berliner Kassen-Vereins, 1850, a silver medal, unsigned, female figure seated on plinth, holding laurel branch and portrait medallion of Joseph Mendelssohn, rev. crane standing by shoreline, reeds behind, 68mm. About extremely fine, scarce £200-£260
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Joseph Mendelssohn (1770-1848), banker; son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn
GERMANY, Foundation of the Bank des Berliner Kassen-Vereins, 1850, a silver medal, unsigned, female figure seated on plinth, holding laurel branch and portrait medallion of Joseph Mendelssohn, rev. crane standing by shoreline, reeds behind, 68mm. About extremely fine, scarce £200-£260
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Joseph Mendelssohn (1770-1848), banker; son of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn