CONFERENCE AT LEIPZIG

DADLER, Sebastian: Germany, 1631, Silver, 50 mm
Obv: City of Leipzig below two angles holding an oval shield with two ribboned ornaments; inside the shield the Hebrew word "Jehovah" in flames.    CHURF:[UERST] HANS GORG Z:[U] SACHSEN GUT, FUR GOTTES EHRE WACHEN THUT, VND HALTET HIER EINEN CONVENT GOTT GEB DRAUF EIN GEWUNCHTES END
Exergue: Ribboned ornament with inscription    16 LIPSIA 31
Rev: Allegorical scene : Virtue introduces young Hercules to Apollo and Mercury. ALCIDI PVERO VIRTUS EN MONSTRAT AITQ[UE] QUI PLACET, HUIC DICAS, TU MIHI CARE PLACES
Signed:  SD
Very rare
Ref: Wiecek 71; Tentzel 47.3; Merseburger 2534;   Europese Penningen # 1069;  Maué 26

This medal was ordered by John George I (Jan Jerzy I ?), the Saxon prince-elector, to commemorate the conference of evangelical princes in Leipzig in February-April 1631.  The main purpose of the conference was to bridge the differences and reach some agreement between the Lutherans and Calvinists.  However, they found more points of difference than commonality between them and prompted each group to denounce each other to everlasting flames as heretics.
The  Conference at Leipzig was instituted as part of the Swedish Phase of the Thirty Years' War.
The reverse of this medal is the third version of two other medals on the same topic by Dadler (Wiecek 69 and 70), the differences being a change from a "U" to a "V" in "PVERO" (Wiecek 70), and the presence of an inscription (AD UTRUMQ.) in the space under the scene (Wiecek 69). The obverses of the three versions are the same.

LINK to The Thirty Years' War (from biosestate.edu)

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