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Beginning of the Year 1764
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Beginning of the Year 1764

Johan George Holtzhey · 1764 · 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: Peace, depicted as a woman with an olive branch in her hand, enveloped in clouds, lifts the winged hat from the head of Mercury, who rests his knee on a pile of goods, and points to the four winds blowing a stack of paper away within an inscription. Reverse: a man in Roman attire with a heart hanging from a ribbon around his neck and holding a scepter with a radiant eye on it, wrapped by a snake, leaning on a column whose base is decorated with an oak wreath; in the background, ships at sea and a rising sun within an inscription; truncation: inscription.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineAanvang van het jaar 1764. 1764. Johan George Holtzhey. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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