HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale

Germany: Deggendorf Church Host Desecration 500th Anniversary pewter medal, 1837; medallist signed (not discernable); size: 43.5mm; weight: 18.4g. Obverse German legend: "ZUR / ERINNERUNG / DES 500 JÅHRIGEN / JUBILAEUM / IN DER HEIL GRAB / KIRCHE / DEGGENDORF / 1837". Reverse: image of Church altar & devices, medallist's name in exergue; German leg: "GRAB CHRISTI DEGGENDORF FILIAL KIRCHE HEIL *". Commemorates 1338 attack & slaughter of Jewish quarter by locals based on false allegation; Duke Henry in Landshut praised the act, absolved the perpetrators & permitted them to keep looted posessions. The now enriched community, in 1360 consecrated a new large Church on the site of the destroyed Synagogue, and in 1361 began a tradition called the "Deggendorf Gnade", a mass annual pilgramage to mark the supposed Jewish desecration of the Host, which continued until abolished in 1992. In AU-UNC; ref: Kirschner-3.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $449. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the starting bid price and the initial buyout price. In such cases please check the latest buyout price on our homesite or contact us.
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Product Tags: German Exonumia, Medals, Medallions & Tokens, Anti-Semitic & Satirical Medals and Judaic Tokens & Medals from Germany and from 19th Century, which are Objects with Christian or New Testament references