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Balthasar Bekker, Minister in Amsterdam, Deposed by the Synod of Alkmaar

anonymous · 1698 · striking (metalworking); silver (metal)

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Silver medal. Obverse: bust of a man within an inscription. Reverse: Hercules, representing the preacher, fights with his club against the two-headed hellhound Cerberus, one of whose heads wears a jester's cap and the other a cleric's cap; in the background, Envy flees; base: inscription.

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history medal Balthasar Bekker Alkmaar Amsterdam Synode van Alkmaar

Credit lineBalthasar Bekker, predikant te Amsterdam, door de synode te Alkmaar afgezet. 1698. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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