1804, Germany. Silver Presentation Medal by D.F. Loos. Rainbow Toned! PCGS SP63!

Mint Place: Berlin
Mint Year: ca. 1804
Medallist: Daniel Friedrich Loos (1735–1819)
Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as SP-63!
Denominations: Presentation Medal - Gift for youing Women.
Reference: Sommer B 30/1. (PCGS shows the wrong reference number!)
Weight: ca. 14.6gm
Diameter: 36mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: Winged God of Time (Father Chronos), holding a scythe in right hand, flying over the earth (adorned with zodiac band, clouds and stars). Medallist´s signature (LOOS) at 5 o'clock near rim.
Legend: DIE ZEIT ENTFLIEHT ("Time escapes...")

Reverse: Objects of domestic economy (book-keeping book, cookbook, flower, painting and sewing kits etc.), entwined by a rose, resting on a, on a decorative tablecloth.
Legend: FUR DICH NICHT UNGENUTZT ("...for you not unused.")

 

Daniel Friedrich Loos (German, 1735, Altenburg - 1819). He was appointed chief engraver and Medallist to the Court at Berlin in 1768. He was the father of the medallists Friedrich Wilhelm Loos and Gottfried Bernhard Loos

Chronos (Greek: Χρόνος, "time"), also spelled Khronos or Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified with, the Titan, Cronus, in antiquity, due to the similarity in names. The identification became more widespread during the Renaissance, giving rise to the iconography of Father Time wielding the harvesting scythe. Greco-Roman mosaics depicted Chronos as a man turning the zodiac wheel. He is comparable to the deity Aion as a symbol of cyclical time. He is usually portrayed as an old callous man with a thick grey beard, personifying the destructive and stifling aspects of time.