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Scenes from Revelations

(born about 1510, active 1538–1581)
dated 1539
Object PlaceGermany
Medium/TechniqueMetal; silver
DimensionsDiameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.)
Credit LineTheodora Wilbour Fund in memory of Zoë Wilbour
Accession number68.50
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsNumismatics
Collections
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "RELEVATIO·CHRIST·QVAM·DEDIT·ILLI·DEVS·VT·PALAM·FACERETSERVIS", and across field "IO:APOC CA:I.", and below "1539". Reverse: Inscribed below "HR" and "I·DEM CA IIII".
ProvenanceBy 1968, Munzen und Medaillen, Bale, Switzerland; 1968, sold by Munzen and Medaillen to the MFA. (Accession date: March 13, 1968)
about 1880
18th century
late 15th–early 16th century
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
mid to late 19th century (before 1889)
17th–18th century
modeled 1978, cast 1979