Nurnberg 1755 Peace of Augsburg Bicentennial. Silver Medal by Peter Paul Werner. Sehr Schön (Hksp.)

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1755, Bavaria, Nurnberg (City). Peace of Augsburg Bicentennial. Silver Medal by Peter Paul Werner.


Mint Year: 1755
Reference: Erlanger 1411.
Medallist: Peter Paul Werner (P.P.W.)
Denomination: Medal - Bicentennial of the Peace of Augsburg.
Condition: A nicely removed suspension loop at 12 o'clock, scratches in fields, otherwise about XF!
Material: Silver
Weight: 14.46gm
Diameter: 35mm


Obverse: Standing allegoric female figure (Minerva) in front of Temple, leaning on oval shield with imperial double-headed eagle with left hand, holding right hand upwards to salute a cupid, which brings her a cornucopia.
Legend: PACIS RELIGIOSAE PERENNITAS
Exergue: D . XXV . SEPT . M . DLV . / P.P.W.

Reverse: Three columns bound together with a chain with three open books, which represtent the Augsburg Confession, the Bible and the Peace of Augsburg Treaty (with two lead bullae hanging). Legend above and in exergue.
Legend: TRIPLICI COPVLA
Exergue: MEMORIAE BISSAECVLARI MDCCLV



The Peace of Augsburg (German: Augsburger Frieden), also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 in the German city of Augsburg. It officially ended the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christianity permanent within the Holy Roman Empire, allowing rulers to choose either Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism as the official confession of their state. Calvinism was not allowed until the Peace of Westphalia.

The Peace of Augsburg has been described as "the first step on the road toward a European system of sovereign states." The system, created on the basis of the Augsburg Peace, collapsed at the beginning of the 17th century, which was one of the reasons for the Thirty Years' War.

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