Kavel 615

Buitenland - Foreign coins
Kavel 615
ERZGEBIRGE. Gold medal 1557, unsigned, presumably by Michael Hohenauer, on the Fall of Man and the resurrection. Adam and Eve at the Tree of Knowledge // Christ stands v. v. with raised right, in the left cross flag, in the background sarcophagus. 31.46 mm; 13.72 g. The abbreviated back inscription of the present medal is a few puzzles and has been in numismatic research often associated with the death of Margrave Albrecht II Alcibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach on January 8, 1557 in Pforzheim. Thus one read the letters and numbers to the pages of the representation of Christi Resurrection as AM - ZB / 15 - 57 and dissolved them accordingly to A [lbrecht] M [arkgraf] Z [U] B [RANDENBURG] 1557 (see Wilmersdörffer 1884, p. 137 and note by Wilmersdörffer, 1294). However, this interpretation is probably to be rejected because, apart from the year 1557, there is no concrete connection to Margrave Albrecht and the letter "B" read with a high probability is the number "8". Accordingly, J. Erbstein, taking into account the Bible passage GENES [is] [chapter] 3 mentioned on the obverse, put the M together with the letters in the field at the end of the inscription and read M [atthäi] AM Z8 - thus in the 28th chapter of the Matthew Gospel, where in the 6th verse the resurrection of Christ is described, albeit in different words. J. Erbstein also suspected that this was an imprint in the environment of the Erzgebirge medals, on which the biblical themes of the Fall of Man and the resurrection are often typologically related to each other, Katz, V.: Die Erzgebirgische Prägemedaille des XVI. Jahrhundert, nice gold patin, very fine+, of the utmost rarity
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