Medal — The Peace of Oliva, Höhn, Johann, Gdansk, 1660
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1660
Medal — The Peace of Oliva, Höhn, Johann, Gdansk, 1660 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1660. The museum's brief description reads: Gold medal commemorating the Peace between Poland & Sweden 'Peace of Olivia' with an inscription on the reverse, by Johann Hohn, 1660, Germany.
Museum description: Gold medal commemorating the Peace between Poland & Sweden 'the Peace of Olivia'. On the obverse the sun amidst clouds shining on Danzig before which a procession of boats passes while a filed of ripened corn in the foreground partially conceals the relics of war. On the reverse a lengthy legend. The museum record gives material recorded as Gold; place associated: Gdansk; maker recorded: Höhn, Johann.
These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
Evidence at a glance
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- Catalogue references
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Historical context
The Peace of Oliva was a treaty signed between Sweden and Poland at Oliva, near Danzig, on 23 April 1660. It marked the end of a war between the two countries.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- Gold
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Gold, struck
- Maker recorded
- Höhn, Johann
- Place recorded
- Gdansk
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- 'POST BELLUM PLENA SURGIT PAX AUREA MESSE. HINC SPERAT MERITAM GEDANI CONSTANTIA FRUGEM.'; 'PACI PERPETUAE POST ALTERNATAS A SECULO INTER POLONIAM SUECIAMQUE INDUCIAS EX MOX BELLA AUSPICIIS DEI TER. OPT. MAX. INVICTAQUE VIRTUTE JOANNIS CASIMIRI PII FELICA PACIFICI ANNO MDCLX DANTISCI ET CIRCA ILLAM TRACTATE FELICITERO III MAII CONCLUSAE EADEM CIVITAS LAETA LUBENS CONSECRAVIT.'
Identification
- Museum object name
- Medal
- Museum object number
- 1462-1882
- Museum system number
- O106818
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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