Later period cast of the wedding medal of King Ladislaus IV Vasa (1632–1648).
Medal originally minted in Danzig by Jan Höhn the Elder, around 1638.
Gold plated specimen.
Obverse and reverse scratched.
Obverse: two figures, in ornate costumes, shaking hands, a burning heart above the hands, at the top two angels holding a ribbon and bouquets, behind the man a tree with two doves, behind the woman a tree with a bird feeding young
LEGITIMO THALAMI QUI DEXTRAS FOEDERE IUNGUNT: HOS DEUS OMNIMODA PROSPERITATE BEAT
Reverse: five praying people, standing around a table set, around the table a pergola with a vine, the trunk of which is entwined with a laurel and palm branch, at the top the tetragrammaton, next to which the hand of providence watering the vine, on the right at the base of the pergola the signature IH, in the section PRECE ET LABORE PROLETHORUM, VICTU MENSAM, VELAMINE CORP9 : ATQ OPERIT DRACHMÆ GRANDINE TECTA DOM9 / ECCE SIC BENEDICETUR VIR QUI TIMET IEHOVAM
Diameter 56 mm, weight 49.24 g
