Schraubtaler (Screw Medal) of Jud Süss Oppenheimer

Artist Unknown

1738

19 illustrations in circular frames connected by ribbon of different painted scenes of man's life from birth to gallows, and two coins, one with gallows and the other with the profile of a man.
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