GERMANY-Augsburg 1700 Marriage Medal by Philipp Heinrich Müller. Rare! PCGS SP62

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Certification details

PCGS Certification number: 46070948

Grade: SP62

Nominal value: Medal

Year: 1700

Diameter: 50

Name: ND (c.1700) Medal Forster-880 AE Var. legend

Country: Augsburg

Material: bronze

Major Variety: Forster-880 AE Var. legend

Catalog Number: PCGS 909055

PCGS Catalog Number: 909055

1700, Augsburg (Free City). Bronze "Marriage" Medal. PCGS SP-62!

Mint Year: 1700
Denomination: Medal
Reference: Fortser 880 var., Erlanger 2255.
Medallist (engraver): Philipp Heinrich Muller
Mint Place: Augsburg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as SP-62! - The only specimen ever certified by PCGS!
Material: Bronze
Weight: 50.41gm
Diameter: 50mm


Obverse: In front of an olive tree overgrown with vines, a pair of hands joined by a chain and lock hold a flaming heart in their left. At her feet, heart-consuming envy and Cupid.
Legend: GIEB MIR . WIE ICH DIR GIEB DEIN HERTZ IN TREU UND LIEB
Translated: "Give me as I gave you, my heart in loyalty and love."

Reverse: Divine light and flowers falling upon a pedestal with intertwined hands, hearts with wedding rings on it, in front of them billing doves in front of crossed torches. Palace grounds with four statues in background.
Legend: WAS GOTT ZUSAMMENGEFUGT BLEIBT UNZERTRENT VERGNUGT.
Translated: "What god has brought together, stays undivided and happy."

Augsburg is an independent city in the south-west of Bavaria. The College town is home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and also of the Bezirk Schwaben and the Landkreis Augsburg. In 1906 Augsburg became a Großstadt (city), and is currently the third-largest city in Bavaria with more than 264,000 citizens. Only Munich and Nuremberg are larger. The name of the city dated from the Roman settlement Augusta Vindelicorum. The city was founded by the Roman emperor Augustus 15 BC as a castra. Therefore the "Fuggerstadt" is the second oldest city in Germany after Trier. In 1530 the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor at the Diet of Augsburg. Following the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, after which the rights of religious minorities in imperial cities were to be protected, a mixed Catholic–Protestant city council presided over a majority Protestant population; see Paritätische Reichsstadt (German). Until the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), religious peace in the city was largely maintained despite increasing confessional tensions. In 1629, Ferdinand II issued the Edict of Restitution resulting in the installation of an entirely Catholic city government that radically curtailed the rights of local Protestants. This persisted until April 1632, when the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus took the city without resistance. Just over two years later, the Swedish army was routed at nearby Nördlingen, and by October 1634 Catholic troops had surrounded Augsburg. The Swedish garrison refused to surrender and a disastrous siege ensued through the winter of 1634–5, during which thousands died of hunger and disease. These difficulties, together with the discovery of America, and of the route to India by the Cape, conspired to destroy the town's prosperity.

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