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Friedrich August

German (Oldenburg)
1914
Object Place: Oldenburg, Germany

Medium/Technique Metal; black metal attached to ribbon
Dimensions Medal: 35 x 29 mm (1 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
Ribbon: 56 x 73 mm (2 3/16 x 2 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Frederick Brown Fund
Accession Number29.254
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsNumismaticsMedals

DescriptionOval shaped medal of Friedrich August (born 1852), grossherzog von Oldenburg attached to red and blue ribbon with Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number 29.253.

Obverse: Profile bust of Friedrich August Grossherzog looking to proper right; inscribed at edge "FRIEDRICH AUGUST GROSSHERZOG VON OLDENBURG".

Reverse: Inscribed at center "FUR/TREUE DIENSTE/IM/WELTKRIEGE".
InscriptionsObverse: Inscribed at edge "FRIEDRICH AUGUST GROSSHERZOG VON OLDENBURG".

Reverse: Inscribed at center "FUR/TREUE DIENSTE/IM/WELTKRIEGE".
ProvenanceBy 1929, Wolf Kostakowsky, Mattapan, MA; 1929, sold by Kostakowsky to the MFA for $518 [see note 1]. (Accession date: January 17, 1929)

NOTES:

[1] Five hundred numismatics, MFA accession numbers 29.159 through 29.658, were purchased from Mr. Kostakowsky for a total price of $518.