Lot 1348
Silver Box Medal (1738). Wurttemberg. 42 mm. Screwed seal. Content: 19 numbered colored pictures from the life of Jud Suss from birth to death. Figures 1 and 19 form the inserts of the lids. obv. Joseph Süs Oppenheimer. Oppenheimers left, date above. Rev. In the upper section, Oppenheimer is a minister in a four-man carriage, Fort- Fort above. In the lower section he is riding in a one-horse carriage, where the gallows awaits him in the background, "HERE IS YOUR PLACE" above. (Fieweger 393). Original. Very rare. Extremely fine. Estimate $30,000UP
Ex M&M GmBH 41, lot 255 -Dec 11, 2014.
Joseph Süs Oppenheimer was the financial adviser of the Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. After the death of the Duke, Oppenheimer was accused of levying taxes without the consent of the provincial governments enriching himself personally. He was condemned to death and at the gates of Stuttgart. His body was hanged in a cage on a gallows, and remained there for six years before taken and buried.
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