Lot 1134
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Joseph I, on his coronation in Augsburg, large silver medal by Martin Brunner and E Frber, undated (1690), crowned bust in coronation robes three-quarters left, within wreath, signed below, rev. oval portraits of Leopold I and the fourteen Holy Roman Emperors of the house of Habsburg since Rudolph I, lettered edge, 74mm. (Horsky 2400; Julius 524; Mont.-; Welzl 7420 var.), a few light marks in obverse field, good very fine
Joseph I, on his coronation in Augsburg, large silver medal by Martin Brunner and E Frber, undated (1690), crowned bust in coronation robes three-quarters left, within wreath, signed below, rev. oval portraits of Leopold I and the fourteen Holy Roman Emperors of the house of Habsburg since Rudolph I, lettered edge, 74mm. (Horsky 2400; Julius 524; Mont.-; Welzl 7420 var.), a few light marks in obverse field, good very fine

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Joseph I, on his coronation in Augsburg, large silver medal by Martin Brunner and E Frber, undated (1690), crowned bust in coronation robes three-quarters left, within wreath, signed below, rev. oval portraits of Leopold I and the fourteen Holy Roman Emperors of the house of Habsburg since Rudolph I, lettered edge, 74mm. (Horsky 2400; Julius 524; Mont.-; Welzl 7420 var.), a few light marks in obverse field, good very fine

Lot Essay

Joseph I (1678-1711), the son of Leopold I and Eleanor of the Palatinate, was crowned king of Bohemia at Augsburg, 1690, and elected Holy Roman Emperor, 1709. He married Wilhelmina of Brunswick-Lneberg-Kalenberg in 1699 but died without an heir and was succeeded by his brother Charles VI.
Martin Brunner (1659-1726), medallist of Nuremberg, is here working in collaboration with E Frber who had the privilege of striking medals 'in his own house', hence the formulaic 'C PRIVIL CAES M above his initial F on the obverse.

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