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Beginning of the Year 1761
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Beginning of the Year 1761

Johan George Holtzhey · 1761 · striking (metalworking); silver (metal)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Silver medal. Obverse: Saturnus with sickle in hand, tears apart a child, seated on a split globe; with his foot he tramples an empty horn of plenty; on the left a corpse, lying at the edge of a grave pit and banners; on the right an antique ship on the beach within inscription; margin: inscription.

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Credit lineAanvang van het jaar 1761. 1761. Johan George Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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