Watch List notes:

Foreign Medals, Switzerland, Huldrych [Ulrich] Zwingli (1484-1531), cast bronze memorial medal, 1531, by Hans Jakob Stampfer, Zurich, his bust to l., wearing peaked cap, after a painting by Hans Asper, IMAGO HVLDRICHI ZVINGLII ANNO ETATIS EIVS 48, rev. chronogrammatic legend in 8 lines, HELVETIE ZVINGLI DOCTOR PASTORQVE CELEBRIS VNDENA OCTO BRIS PASSVS IN AETHRA VOLAS HS, narrow wreathed border around, 36mm. (Habich I, 1, 848; Haller 306), a well patinated cast and probably near contemporary (though obverse shows signs of being cast from a pierced specimen), obverse with tooled image and field, reverse somewhat rough, very fine and very rare
*ex Baldwin's vault
Reformation theologian Zwingli served as a Chaplain in the Second Kappel War and was killed on 11 October 1531. The Catholic victors quartered and burned his corpse and scattered his ashes.
(250-350 GBP)