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English: GERMANY, Hamburg (Stadt). AR Medal (27mm, 5.25 g, 12h). Commemorating the Discovery of the ‘Great Comet’. Dated 1681 in chronogram on the reverse. Comet descending through a starry sky; in two lines in exergue, Ao 1680 · 16 DEC ·/· 1681 · IAN · / DER/STERN DROHT/BOESE SACHEN:/TRAV NVR’/GOTT/VVIRDS VVOL/MACHEN · (the star threatens evil, but trust in God, and he will make it well) in seven lines. (The enlarged letters form a Roman numeral chronogram for 1681.)
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