This is a lead medal made by Valentin Maler and dated 1569. The medal has only the obverse which represents the bust of Andreas Imhof the Elder of Nuremberg, Councillor of Nuremberg (1491-1558), facing nearly front, bearded and wearing a cap.

A coloured wax version survives in the Germanisches National Museum, Nuremberg. Although it could not itself have functioned as the model for the medal, it might have had a cast taken from it from which the medal could have been made.

Maler (about 1540-1603) is documented as being in Nuremberg by 1568. In 1569 he married Wenzel Jamnitzer's daughter, Maria. He was active as a wax modeller and portrait medallist in Nuremberg from 1568 onwards until his death in 1603, but he travelled widely visiting many royal courts in Prague, Munich, Dresden, Würzburg, Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), Stuttgart and Bamberg. He worked for Duke Wilhelm of Munich, Elector Augustus and Duke Christian of Saxony, and later for the Habsburg Emperors, Maximilian II and Rudolf II. He also produced many medals of Munich citizens. Later in his career he undertook die-cutting for struck medals, particularly commemorative coins.