Mainz, Germany, Silver Medal 1840, Gutenberg Printing Press 400th Anniversary, obverse
Medallion d. = 37 mm. 17.47 g Ag.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg, c. 1400 Mainz, Electorate of Mainz in the Holy Roman Empire - 1468 Mainz, Germany.
His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium, ushering in the modern period of human history. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses
Around the Gutenberg monument in Mainz by Thorwaldsen: "DISSIMVLARE · VIRVM · HVNC · DISSIMVLARE · DEVM · EST"/ Around Gorgoneion on shield: "ARTE · SVA · LITERAS · AVXIT IN · MEMOR · SECVLAR · TYPOGRPHIAE · MDCCCXL". Slg Walther -; Wurzbach 3457 (Bronze); Forrer IV, p. 253
Medallists:
I. (Johann) I. (Jakob) Neuss, 1770 Augsburg - 1848 Augsburg and Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770 Copenhagen - 1844 Copemhagen
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