Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 GTRexclude number stamped "H46412"

number stamped "H46412"

ORIENT (bronze gilt

50 in 2016

constructed in 3 die struck pieces

resting upon a peak

Austria, Imperial. A Silver Medal For The Defense Of Tirol, 1848 GTRexclude number stamped "H46412"An example of an 1848 issue silver Commemorative Medal for the Defense of Tirol (Silberne Tiroler Erinnerungsmedaille); a round silver medal; the obverse depicting the leftward facing bust of a young Kaiser Franz Josef, circumscribed by his name and title; the reverse inscribed Dem Tiroler Landes Verteidiger 1848 (The Tirol Defenders), as well as Mit Gott fr Kaiser und Vaterland (With God for Kaiser and the Fatherland); marked K. Lange on the obverse;