Obverse: A young man attempting to catch the fleeing Chronos (with bill hook). Reverse: A figure being carried by the winged Chronos.

Medal commemorating the Passing of Time

Modeled by Gottfried Bernhard Loos, and modeled by Carl Friedrich Voigt, Probably Royal Prussian Iron Foundry, Berlin

1820/25

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