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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3303752, member: 39"]Kind of strange that the coin merely says "Memorial Year", without referring to when Dürer was born and died. The piece was issued to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death. The portrait was modeled after a medal that Hans Schwarz made in 1520, <a href="https://artinwords.de/albrecht-duerer-gesamtwerk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://artinwords.de/albrecht-duerer-gesamtwerk/" rel="nofollow">see here</a>. (Search for "Sodom" on that page to see the piece. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> ) On the left is Schwarz's wooden model, on the right is the medal.</p><p><br /></p><p>To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Dürer's birth, by the way, both the <a href="https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/f/5-dm-duerer-1971-73fca0bf.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/f/5-dm-duerer-1971-73fca0bf.jpg" rel="nofollow">Federal Republic of Germany</a> and the <a href="https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/c/10-mark-duerer-1971-0bb6e61c.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/c/10-mark-duerer-1971-0bb6e61c.jpg" rel="nofollow">German Democratic Republic</a> issued collector coins in 1971. This time his monogram was used, in both cases, for the design ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3303752, member: 39"]Kind of strange that the coin merely says "Memorial Year", without referring to when Dürer was born and died. The piece was issued to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his death. The portrait was modeled after a medal that Hans Schwarz made in 1520, [url=https://artinwords.de/albrecht-duerer-gesamtwerk/]see here[/url]. (Search for "Sodom" on that page to see the piece. :) ) On the left is Schwarz's wooden model, on the right is the medal. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Dürer's birth, by the way, both the [url=https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/f/5-dm-duerer-1971-73fca0bf.jpg]Federal Republic of Germany[/url] and the [url=https://www.muenzen.eu/assets/images/c/10-mark-duerer-1971-0bb6e61c.jpg]German Democratic Republic[/url] issued collector coins in 1971. This time his monogram was used, in both cases, for the design ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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