103362 | SWEDEN. Alfred Nobel gilt silver Award Medal.

103362  |  SWEDEN. Alfred Nobel gilt silver Award Medal. Issued circa 2024 for participation on the nominating committee for the prize in physics or chemistry (27mm, 13.06 g, 12h). By Erik Lindberg (in 1901), and struck by Sporrong.

 

Bust left, wearing frock coat; ALFR• / NOBEL – NAT• / MDCCC / XXXIII / OB• / MDCCC / XCVI across field // REG • ACAD • SCIENT • SVEC, crowned and winged coat-of-arms of Sweden; radiant North Star above. Edge: SPORR 925.

 

Ehrensvärd 21. PCGS SP-68. Highly attractive matte yellow surfaces. No doubt one of the more enthralling, nearly-flawless examples of the type that one will encounter. Please note that the PCGS "Trueview" for this medal is rather misleading, as the cropping near the bottom of the obverse gives an impression that it is not perfectly round. This is likely due to PCGS's blind usage of AI to crop their images, thus resulting in a finished product that is anything but true to the view.

 

One of Lindberg's early tasks was the creation of the Nobel Prize medals, the Nobel institution for the awarding of these prizes having been newly established. Outside of the Peace Prize (presented instead in Oslo) and the Economics Prize (created much later by the Sveriges Riksbank and not considered part of the Nobel canon), Lindberg's renditions continue to be used for the prize medals to this day, as well as the medals presented to the respective nominating committees. Though the actual prize medals are almost never encountered in the market, the nominating medals do appear and have become quite popular, as they are generally as close as one can realistically get to an actual prize medal—even if you are a president who claims to have ended 7 wars, or 10 wars, or whatever the current senile lie is.

 

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Upload: 5 January 2026.