CARVED WOOD SATIRICAL MEDAL LION PROTECTING COCK
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Sweden, Karl XI, 1681 - 1697, satirical medal ND (1681) struck on boxwood to be used as a draughtsman, Nuremberg, 51 mm, 21.26 g - the amusing allegorical obverse show the Gallic cock picking the grain being protected by the Swedish lion. Ex. Merzbacher, Munich, September 1927. The text to the reverse "TRAU NICHT DEM APPETIT, DIE KÖRNER AUS ZU PICKEN ES KONTE DIR DIE LUST. IN EINER KLAU ERSTICKEN" To the obverse "VIGILI NIMIUM NE CREDE SOPORI" showing the Lion protecting the Chicken
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