Medal - Start of conflicts between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark

Medal - Start of conflicts between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark - obverseMedal - Start of conflicts between Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark - reverse

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Features

Location Danish duchies of Schleswig and Holstein (German States)
Type Commemorative medals › Event medal
Year 1848
Composition Bronze
Weight 38.98 g
Diameter 42 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
158259
References Lange# 181c,
Christian Christoph Andreas Lange; 1908. Sammlung schleswig-holsteinischer Münzen und Medaillen / Band 1. Schauenburgische Herzöge und Grafen in Schleswig-Holstein vor 1460. Bahlke, Berlin, Germany.
And 1 more volumes.
Bergsøe# 202
Vilhelm Bergsøe; 1893. Danske Medailler og Jetons fra 1789-1891. Numismatisk Forening, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Commemorative issue

Beginning of the First War between Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein

Obverse

Christian I. of Oldenburg conjuring the national law in 1460, next to him personifications of Schleswig and of Holstein.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
DAT SE BLIVEN EWICH TOSAMENDE VNGEDELT * NICHT ALSE ENEME KONINGE TO DENNEMARKEN *
RIPPEN
MITTWOCH N.INVOC. // 1460

Engraver: Heinrich Lorenz

Reverse

Personifications of Schleswig and Holstein standing over fortifications battling against the attackers in the form of a Lindworm, in background a rising sun and a ship.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
RECHT UND GERECHTIGKEIT STEHN UNS ZUR SEITE * FORTVIVLELSENS SELVHJÆLP *
24. MAERZ 1848 // LORENZ F.

Engraver: Heinrich Lorenz

Edge

Plain

Comments

Bersøe 202

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1848 

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