1078370 | GERMAN STATES. Württemberg. Albert. (1873-1902). (1894) ND AR Pattern 3 Mark or Medallic Pattern. PCGS SP63 Cameo. By Lauer, Nuremberg (unsigned). Edge: Plain. 33.39mm. 18.67gm. Conjoined busts, right / Legend above ornamental flourishes; PROBE. Schaaf 174aG1; Barduleck 148 Anm; Ebner 162.

For the wedding of his nephew Johann Georg to Princess Maria Isabella of Württemberg, donated by the Numismatic Society in Dresden. Schaaf describes this as a Pattern 3 Mark, but is sometimes alternatively described as a Medallic 3 Mark. Court Councilor Richard Julius Erbstein ordered a medal for the Numismatic Society from Lauer in Nuremberg on the marriage of the second son of the later King George of Saxony (1902-1904), Johann Georg, with Maria Isabella of Württemberg, but their portraits were not very similar . So he discarded the stamps and had a reverse made with the inscription PROBE (SAMPLE). Erbstein turned to Max Barduleck for a second medal design.


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