Medal in memory of St. Elisabeth Silver,... Lot 47

Medal in memory of St. Elisabeth Silver, gilt. Obverse in a frame of 17 rounded arches with finials of finials the bust portrait of a queen with crown and veil, looking to the left, inscribed all around "ELISABETA. FILIA. ANDRE. REG. UNGAR. OBIIT. MARB. AN. MCCXXXI". Reverse in a frame of 17 rounded arches with finials of cross flowers depicting the Elisabethkirche in Marburg, inscribed all around: "DISPERSIT. DEDIT. PAUP. IUST: EIUS: MANET: IN: SECUL: SECULI". Rarely stamped "ICS" above the steeple. Unmarked. D 5,1 cm, weight 14 g. Prague, attributed, c. 1619. The large series of pseudo-medieval medals, long known as "Jew medals" because of their alleged production by Jewish minters in Prague, glorified the ancestors of the House of Habsburg. This specimen bears a portrait of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), the wife of Louis IV of Thuringia. On the reverse is the large Elisabeth Church in Marburg, whose construction began in 1235 with the canonization of Elisabeth, one of the earliest Gothic church buildings in Germany. Literature Another specimen in the Wien Museum Collection, Inv.No. 7017 (in the Verzeichniss der Münz- und Medaillen-Sammlung des kaiserl. königl. Hofrathes und Mitgliedes mehrerer gelehrten Gesellschaften, Herrn Leopold Welzl von Wellenheim, II./I., Vienna 1844, Cat.-No. 78).