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LOT 208:
Anti-Semite Tone German Silver Medal Cynical Humoristic 1720 "Easy Come Easy Go" on greed for money.
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Anti-Semite Tone German Silver Medal Cynical Humoristic 1720 "Easy Come Easy Go" on greed for money.
Side A:
Researcher Binyamin Betz described the medal in the following way: "Two guards, each with an axe spear and one with a sword spear, standing face to face, the one on the left, about to begin his swings, holding his hat. The other, his hat under his arm, is holding behind in his arm a bag of money: hints at him that if discrete, he mat have money too come his turn. The German inscription above GELD IST DIE LOSUNG (Money is the key word). The term "Losung" has much meaning in this context, so one could read the qutoe as money is the answer or the solution. however..... Bottom: ABER.
Side B:
The figure of a sad old man standing in a courtroom gown pointing with his right hand towards a walet lifted with his left, out the wallet coins are falling from a hole in the bottom. The German inscription above: "easy KOMMT easy GEHT" (easy come easy go). The style resembles that of Wermuth, even to the phrase GELD (money) IST DIE LOSUNG. Bruno Kirschner attributes this piece unequivocally to Wermuth. The positions the piece in his series of satire Jewish medals (the hat and the ancient wear of the old man were standard portrayals of Jews in that period).
Nonetheless, the idea that "Money is the solution" by Kirschner was attributed to Jews who were allegedly only interested in money.
Weight: 15 gr., diameter: 37.8 mm.
