1972.267: Double Guldiner
Coins
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1972.267
- People
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Ulrich Ursentaler, German
- Title
- Double Guldiner
- Classification
- Coins
- Work Type
- coin
- Date
- 1509
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/226378
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Silver
- Dimensions
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5.4 cm diam. x 0.3 cm depth (2 1/8 x 1/8 in.)
60.46 g - Denomination
- double guldiner
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: obverse, around perimeter, struck: MAXIMILIANVS · DEI · GRA · ROM · IMP · SEMP · AVG · ARCHDVX · AVSTRIE
- inscription: reverse, around perimeter, struck: PLVRIUMQ · EUROPE · PROVINCIAR · REX · ET · PRINCEPS · POTENTISIM
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Frederick M. Watkins, Bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1972.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frederick M. Watkins
- Accession Year
- 1972
- Object Number
- 1972.267
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
-
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Descriptions
- Description
- Slightly convex. Obverse: Armed knight on horseback. Reverse: twenty-seven coats of arms, with arms of Hapsburg (double headed eagle) at center. Note that letters N on reverse inscription are reversed.
Publication History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1973), no. 8, p. 165, repr.
Exhibition History
- The Frederick M. Watkins Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/31/1973 - 03/14/1973
Verification Level
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