101017 | SWEDEN. Jakob Adlerbeth silver Medal.
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101017 | SWEDEN. Jakob Adlerbeth silver Medal. Issued 1927. Commemorating the life of the archaeologist (45mm, 45.86 g, 12h). By E. Lindberg.
JAC ā¢ ADLERBETH ā¢ NAT ā¢ MDCCLXXXV ā¢ OB ā¢ MDCCCXLIV, bust right / Charioteer, holding thunderstruck hammer, driving biga of rams left; in foreground, runestone upon which rests a lyre; in two lines in exergue, FIDE ā¢ NEPOTUM / GOTHIA ā¢ REDUX. Edge: SILVER 1927.
Mint State. Pleasingly toned, somewhat more so on the obverse.
Son of the famous writer and politican Gudmund Jƶran Adlerbeth, Jakob Adlerbeth became a prominent archaeologist and founder of the Gƶtiska fƶrbundet (Gothic covenant), a literary society promoting Nordic romanticism.
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