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HAMBURG: AE medal, 1843, VF-XF

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HAMBURG: AE medal, 1843, VF-XF
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This item SOLD at 2025 Jul 15 @ 10:51UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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HAMBURG: AE medal, 1843, Gaed-2084, The Medal for Assistance in the Fire of 1842 was awarded to the volunteer firefighters who assisted Hamburg during the great fire that engulfed the city the previous year. In total 4,858 medals were awarded. The inscription on the medal states "Das Dankbare Hamburg Seinen Freunden In Der Noth" ("The grateful Hamburg in need to its friends"), the material for the medal was the bell metal melted during the fire, which copper from the roof panels of the burnt-out St. Peter's Church was added, with original ribbon of issue, VF-XF. The great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroyed 1,700 residences and several important public buildings, necessitating major civic rebuilding and prompting infrastructure improvements. The heavy demand on insurance companies led to the establishment of reinsurance.