Beginning of the year 1762, Silver Medal. Front: genius tries to put a statue of Peace with olive branch in hand on a column to which a coat of arms with double-headed crowned eagle is attached. At the base of the column two coats of arms and an anchor within a circle, cut: year. Reverse: Mercury with winged hat, staff and olive branch sitting among merchandise, next to him a Dutch lion with a freedom hat and an orange branch wrapped in a bundle of arrows on a lance, at his feet horn of abundance and herring barrels, in the background the herring tube and ships at sea within the scope, cut off: inscription, Red Indians, American Indians, (story of) Mercury (Hermes), Johan George Holtzhey, Amsterdam, 1762, silver (metal), striking (metalworking), d 4.4 cm × w 27.69 gr
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