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SOUTH AFRICA: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, AE medal (38.24g), 1895, AU

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SOUTH AFRICA: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, AE medal (38.24g), 1895, AU
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SOUTH AFRICA: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, AE medal (38.24g), 1895, Zw-1181; Moy-92, 44mm bronze medal by Philip Mathias Menger for the Opening of the Pretoria - Delagoa Railway; portrait of Paul Kruger left with circular inscription, OPENING VAN DEN DELAGOABAAI SPOORWEG // wings of Hermes on cartwheel and arrows, NEDERLANDSCHE ZUID-AFRIKAANSCHE SPOORWEG-MAATSCHAPPIJ in outer marginal legend, AU. Menger was a Dutch Medallist and Coin engraver. He was born at Utrecht, 21 April 1845, studied sculpture under his father, and G. Crayevanger. He became an apprentice at the Netherlands Royal Mint, 2 March 1862. In 1864 he received a government grant to study sculpture and medal-engraving at the Royal Academy of Arts of Munich, where he worked under Prof. Wiedmann Riez, Chief-engraver at the Bavarian Mint; and Birnböck, the court-medallist to the Czar Alexander II. He returned to his native country in 1867, and soon after, in October 1868, he obtained the appointment of second assistant Engraver at the Royal Mint of Utrecht. In June 1875 he was promoted to the rank of first assistant, in 1877 to that of second Engraver, and on his father's resignation in January 1891, he became Chief-engraver, a post which he retained until 1904, when he retired for reasons of health.