HAMBURG: Free and Hanseatic City, AR medal (30.41g), 1651, Wiecek-138, Gaedechens-1564, 45mm gilt silver "Gluckhennenmedaille" for the Peace of Westphalia by S. Dadler, chicken sitting with her chicks under a tree entwined with grapevines with olive trees to left and right and "UNSER FEIGENBAUM UND REBEN WIRD NUN SICHERN SCHATTEN GEBen" around // beneath a radiant Jehovah (in Hebrew) Justice (left with sword, scales, and palm branch) and Diligence (right with beehive) on an altar with open Bible standing with inscription VERBUM / DOMINUM / MAN ET IN / AETER NUM ("God's Word Remains for Eternity") with GOTT GIB FRIED IN DEINEM LAND ERHALT LEHR WEHR UND NEHR STAND around all, small attempted obverse piercing, light reverse tooling, plain edge, VF. Sebastian Dadler (1586-1657) was one of the foremost medallists of the seventeenth century. He was born at Strasbourg in 1586, but resided at Augsburg (1619) and Dresden (1621-1630), and later at Nuremberg, Berlin and chiefly at Hamburg where he died in 1657. At Augsburg, he held the post of first Goldsmith to the Imperial and Electoral Saxon Court, and there attained celebrity as a Medallist and Chaser in gold and silver. At Dresden he was appointed Medallist and Goldsmith to the Ducal Court of Saxony. While at Nuremberg Dadler is believed to have been employed by the Elector of Brandenburg. Because of his international renown, Dadler also worked for the House of Orange, the Court of Sweden and for many other princely houses of Europe.