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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wcg, post: 4101264, member: 77169&quot;]Yes definitely 1743 Speyer sede vacante medal.&nbsp; Designed by P.P.Werner (Peter Paul Warner).&nbsp; Features St Stephan standing on the reverse.&nbsp;&nbsp; Classified as Ehrend 7/21, Zepernick 251.&nbsp;&nbsp; The medal commemorates the sede vacante (empty seat) after the death of Hugo Damian of Schönborn, Prince-Bishop of Speyer and Bishop of Konstanz. </p><p><br /></p><p>Scarce piece; I see 3 in the acsearch.info archives.&nbsp;&nbsp; There is one offered on eBay right now, but I don’t think the description is correct in the listing.&nbsp; &nbsp; It states that it is Zepernick 208, which echoes the Katz lot 979 description in Oct 2016 sale.&nbsp; The Katz auction house was wrong on the classification; Kunker had it right in this auction:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1528011" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1528011" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1528011</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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