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NUMISMAGRAM MEDAL SELECTIONS: JUNE 2, 2024Numismagram's Jeremy Bostwick sent along these four medals from his most recent upload of new material to his site. For all of the new items, please visit https://www.numismagram.com/inventory. -Editor 
102560 | GERMANY. Hamburg. Satirical silver Medal. Issued circa 1708 or slightly thereafter. The supposed corruption of the imperial commission by the Jewish community (29mm, 5.46 g, 3h). By the Loos workshop in Berlin. KOMSTU MIR ALSO (if you'll scratch my back...), hand putting forth numerous coins // SO KOMME ICH DIR SO (...I'll scratch yours), bust facing slightly right, with hand nearly covering face, though with eyes peering through; LOOS on sleeve. Edge: Plain. GPH 1220; Fieweger Coll. 343. PCGS MS-63. Deep gray toning, with some scattered iridescence and flashy brilliance when catching the light. One of the finest examples of the type that one can hope to encounter. We sold a somewhat more colorful though smaller and lesser graded example for $985 last fall. $985.
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102581 | FRANCE. "Le Grand Sphinx" silver Medal. Issued "5804" (1804) for the masonic lodge (26mm, 9.08 g, 6h). G?SPHINX., sphinx, holding jar in each hand, reclining left upon base decorated with floral scrolls; ankh to left // SILENCE AMITIE / BIENFAISANCE, radiant Eye of Providence. Edge: Reeded. Labouret 249; Bramsen 404; Julius 1352; d'Essling 2085. PCGS AU-58. Lightly toned and highly brilliant. A rare and highly interesting masonic issue with connections to ancient Egypt. Compare to a similar example that realized a total of €1,020 in Numismatica Ars Classica 122 (14 November 2020), lot 245. $895.
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102614 | ITALY & BRITISH EAST INDIES. Pope Leo XIII silver Medal. Issued Year XVII (1894/5). On the founding of the Papal Seminary in British India at Kandy (44mm, 36.00 g, 12h). By F. Bianchi in Rome. LEO XIII PONT MAX AN XVII, bust left, wearing zucchetto, mantum, and pallium // FILII TVI INDIA ADMINISTRI TIBI SALVTIS (your own sons, India, will be the heralds of your salvation), female personification of the Catholic Church seated right, holding cross and observing St. Francis Xavier (Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta), who instructs two natives; façade of the seminary in background; in two lines in exergue, XAVERIO • AVSPICE / ET • PATRONO. Edge: An extremely subtle bruise, otherwise plain. Bartolotti E894; Rinaldi 88. PCGS SP-64. Extremely prooflike and alluring, with highly mirrored fields and superbly frosted devices creating a great cameo contrast; some deeper toning in a few spots. Given the resounding prooflike nature and rich brilliance, a somewhat undergraded specimen. An interesting papal issue with a strong East Asian connection. $465.
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102751 | GREAT BRITAIN. "Linlithgow Threshold" cast bronze Medal. Issued 2001 (80mm x 79mm, 650.80 g, 12h). By S. Beeson for the British Art Medal Society and cast by Niagara Falls. Each side: square-like structure with various insets, cutouts, and crenelations. Edge: SB 2002/23. Attwood 159 & p. 35; The Medal 40, p. 108 (and also serving as the cover art for the issue); De Beeldenaar –. Essentially as Made. Dark brown surfaces. An intriguing and highly sculptural work of medallic art, which freely stands and is one of just 30 made. $395.
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