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Commemorative Medal: The 1000th anniversary of the founding of Ottobeuren Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 764. The celebrations took place in 1766, coinciding with the completion and consecration of the new Baroque abbey church.

Obverse: Detailed bird’s-eye view of Ottobeuren Abbey, showing the monastery complex, its courtyards, church towers and surrounding grounds. The engraver’s initials I·T· appear in the exergue.

Engraver: Jonas Thiébaud

Reverse: Five-line Latin inscription OTTOBVRA DECEM NOVITER POST SAECVLA RESVRGENS (“Ottobeuren rising anew after ten centuries”), arranged as a chronogram within an ornate Baroque cartouche decorated with floral ornaments. The enlarged Roman numeral letters M, D, C, C, L, V, V, V and I add up to 1766, the year of the abbey’s millennial celebrations.

Edge: Plain

You can verify the PCGS certification number: 83850805

the highest graded example of its kind within PCGS

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