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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3391040, member: 89314&quot;]1521 Here is another even more splendid issue of Archbishop Matthaus: </p><p><br /></p><p>Austria SALZBURG Matthaus Lang von Wellenburg&nbsp; Medallic 2 Radiana-Guldiner 1521</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse depicts St.Radiana with halo between 2&nbsp; wolves, washing utensils at her feet, behind landscape with trees at l. and&nbsp; Wellenburg Castle at r.&nbsp; According to the legend, Radiana (c.1300) died at Wellenburg Castle after being attacked on her way home&nbsp; by wolves.&nbsp; A chapel built at her burial place became a place of pilgrimage for the poor and the sick.&nbsp; In 1520 Archbishop Matthaus had a Gothic church built there.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]900915[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]900916[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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