1600-1639 AD., German States, Nuremberg, Counter by Hans Christoph Lauer, Henri IV of France on horseback.
German States, Nuremberg, Counter by Hans Christoph Lauer, struck ca. 1600-1639 AD.,
Jeton / Counter (ø 27-29 mm / 4,88 g), brass, axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°),
Obv.: HENRI III D G FRANCOR ET NAVAR REX / H LAVER , equestrian figure left (Henri IV, King of France from 1589 to 1610).
Rev.: REGIS SACRA - FOEDERA MAGNI , two columns on plinth entwined with laurel and palm branches, supporting crown.
for a similar copper piece cf. http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1260001 (Baldwin's Auctions Ltd., Auction 74, lot 1939)
from L. Forrer "Biographical dictionary of medallists ...":
LAUER, HANS CHRISTOPH (Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1623-1639 (Kull, II, 710). Lauer was a Goldsmith by profession, and according to Gebert, he applied for the post of Master of the Mint in October 1618, and already in the same year, on the 9. December, he was entrusted with the issue of 150 Goldgulden for Würzburg, which bear his distinctive mark, a star. In 1619, Lauer restruck a large number of foreign gold coins into Nuremberg Goldgulden ; again in 1620, and 1621, he was ordered to coin a large quantity of gold and silver currency. He died in September or October 1639 and was succeeded by his son, Johann or Hans David Lauer. His distinctive mark on the coins is a star.
LAUER, HANS DAVID {Germ.). Mint-master at Nuremberg, 1639-1646. He left for Poland in 1647. Kull gives the date of his activity at Nuremberg as 1639-1650, evidently in error.