WHM 37

Inventory number: WHM 37
Period: Modern
Category: Medal
Date: 1791AD
Material: Bronze
Manufacture: Struck
Shape: Circular
Diameter: 32 mm
Reference: Henckel 1973; Voltolina 1738.
Acquisition: Wadih Hadad Collection (Beirut), bought from Gorny & Mosch, 197, lot 7079 (Collection Mehmet Ede and Hüla Ede-Uçta).
Date of acquisition: 2011-03-11
Remarks: Germany. Dedicated to the Turkish envoy Asmi Achmet Said Effendi, under Sultan Selim III, and his visit to the court of Friedrich Wilhelm II in Berlin

ASMI ACHMET-EFENDI

Bust of Asmi Achmet Effendi to left.

ZUM / DENKMAL DES / TURKISCHEN / GESANDTEN / ZU BERLIN / IM FEBRUAR, 1791 (in exergue)