Obverse: head in profile right; reverse: laurel wreath.

Friedrich Anton Freiherr von Heinitz (1725-1802), Co-Founder of the Prussian Royal Iron Foundries

Modeled by Anton Friedrich König the Elder, Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Gleiwitz

About 1802

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