Obverse: Female figure standing, facing, wearing a long dress and her hands above her head grasping a cross-bar resting on side posts. On either side an executioner seizing her breast with a pair of pincers. Background sprinkled with flowers and below a shield of arms chevronée; Inscription in legend within beaded borders, disrupted by the cross bar and shield of arms.
Reverse: high shaped pierced ridge
With wax impression.
Diameter: Diameter: 4 centimetres

Inscription position: obverse, legend
Inscription language: Latin
Inscription script: Black Letter
Inscription content: /SI.ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI.A/RD.IN.ECCIA.TREU'
Inscription transliteration: /SI[GILLUM].ADOLFI.DE.EPSTEI[N].AR[CHI]D[IACO].IN.ECC[LES]IA[E].TRE[VERICA]U[RBS]
Inscription translation: Seal of Adolf of Epstein, archdeacon? in the curch of Trier. Siegel des Adolf von Epstein, Erzdiakon? der Kirche von Trier.
Inscription note: The Transliteration of "AR" as archdeacon is unsure. Orbis Latinus gives more options for the latin name of Trier, so their might be different possibilities to transliterate the last abbreviation.

Two wax impressions, one on paper and one gutta percha.

Identified as the Matryrdom of St. Agatha.

Tonnochy Slip Catalogue says that the arms of Eppstein are argent, three chevrons gules.]]> Europe: Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate (state): Trier]]> Europe: Germany]]> https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1847-0802-7
Purchased from: Curtis
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