Bern. Canton silver Specimen "300th Anniversary of the Bern Reformation" Medal 1828 SP63 PCGS, Schweizer Medaillen-576, Wunderly-1332. 55mm. 55.62gm. By A. Bovy. Civic deity of Bern seated right, holding oval shield and extending hand toward Religion standing left, holding open Bible set upon pulpit; in background, cherub flying slightly left, head right, holding billowing drapery inscribed ZWINGLI (Huldrych Zwingli, leader of the Reformation in Switzerland) / NICHT ERSCHÜTTERT NUR CEREINICT ([our faith] not lost, merely purified). Façade of the münster of Bern; in three lines in exergue, DRITTE EVANG: IUBELFEIER/IN BERN/MDCCCXXVIII (300th anniversary of the Reformation in Bern). Housed in an oversized holder.

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