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Historical Commemorative Medals

A collection of copper and brass medals commemorating historical events and figures, featuring intricate designs and significant inscriptions related to French history.

Carnavalet museum, medal collection Right to the left of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte; Reverse registration on five lines.
Carnavalet museum, medal collection Right to the left of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte; Reverse registration on five lines.
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Geuzenpennegen. Silver oval medal with a wearing eye. Front: breastpiece man inside. Reverse: Two stepped hands stabbed through a charm bag inside.Anonymous, commemorative medal for twelve years of loyal service under the flags (Prussia, Hesse) (Username), 1913, bronze gilded, Paris Liberation Museum - General Leclerc Museum - Jean Moulin Museum.Schippersgilde in 's-Hertogenbosch, guild pendant donated by the guild to Archer Jan Hubert. Silver medal to carrying eye in cable rim; Loading aoge, loose with the medal. Front: to the right sailing tjalk inside. Reverse: Skinny, crowned coat of arms, resting on a console, flanked by two half-naked men with buds over shoulder; Among it decorative motif within CologneJan Smeltzing I, Medal on the plunder of the house of Baljuw Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt at the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam, penning visual material brass, plundering the house at the Leuvehaven, UBI INTERFICERE FAS EST IBI DESTRUERE (Where the killing is free there also devastating) (legend) and IAC: SUYLE NYEVELT PRAET: ROTT: DOMI DESTRUCTIO D. 6 OCTOB: 1690 (The destruction of the house of the Rotterdam chief Jacob Zuylen of Nyevelt 6 October 1690) (cut) Tumult of Rotterdam Costerman Riot Jacob van Zuylen of Nyevelt mayorCitadel medal 1832 with blue ribbon, after 1832 medal Citadel medal with blue ribbon. The ribbon is made of blue textile. The medal is round and bronze with a raised edge. The citadel of Antwerp is engraved in the middle. On the other side there is a crowned W with the text December 1832 surrounded by a laurel wreath. The medal is attached to a bearing eye that in turn is attached to a ring. Netherlands penning: bronze (metal). lint: textile materials forging / striking (metalworking)Johann Georg Holtzhey, Death of the Stadholder, Dutch, 1729 - 1808, 1751, silverPlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Price medal of the Vereeniging of Nederlandsche Verschutters, The Hague, 1893. Salvovure, third price, Anonymous, 1893 medal. award medal Penning with Ring and Eye of the Association of Dutch snipers, achieved by the Schutterij Regiment in Amsterdam, 1893. Front: Wapen van Nederland in Renaissance style. Conversion: Association of Dutch snackers. Reverse: General shooting competition Hoorn. In the field: 3rd / corps prize / AfD D II / 250 meters. Dischanging: IVE National shooting competition 's Gravenhage 1893 Amsterdam penning: silver (metal)Carnavalet museum, medal collection Right in the woods, a dash on the left, the anterior legs resting on the body of a dead fox; Reverse a row of trees on the edge of the forest.Medal in Saint Michel, s. d. (Dummy title) Anonymous. Medal in Saint Michael (Apers).First prize of the Arquebuse offered by the city of Paris Fran�ois Alard (said Gamot). First prize of the arquebuse offered by the city of Paris. Bronze. Around 1736.G. Loos, Medal Zuid-Hollandsche Maatschappij for the rescue of drowning, penny image material copper, printed, Man carrying drowning person; behind that man helping other drowning man and man pushing the lifeboat back into the sea; in background the stranded ship partially visible in waves, G. LOOS DIR KöNIG FEC. Rotterdam rescue rescue drowningPlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionF. Baetes, Prize for the International Competition for Theater Art in Antwerp, price medal medal silver gold, gilded, river god with river urn sitting to the right with right arm on two coats of arms of which the back of Antwerp; front shield shows city wall with three towers and underneath text. In the outstretched left hand the god holds laurel wreath at his feet lyre and some papers; in the background left church of Antwerp, READ. COMITY signed; legend: CITY OF ANTWERP theater competition theater Association Peace and Friendship Belgium RotterdamAcknowledgments from M�con to Switzerland, August 5, 1871 (dummy title) Acknowledgments from M�con to Switzerland, August 5, 1871. Copper, 1871.Planets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Ferdinand de Saint Urbain, Hippocrates and Dr John Freind (reverse), 1728 Hippocrates and Dr. John Freind reverseOccasional Badge of the Women's League in Krakow in honor of Józef Piłsudski on Name Day 19/III 1917National Day, July 14, 1881 Commemorative Medal of National Day, July 14, 1881.Carnavalet museum, medal collectionReward for honorable mention at the June Days, June 23-26, 1848 (Title Title) Reward for honorable mention at the June days, June 23-26, 1848 Etain. 1848.Project Graly-Manzag 2013-2016 Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionPlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionWorld's Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal c 1892-1894 United States. Bronze . Augustus Saint-GaudensJean Darmand, called Lorfelin, Anne of Austria, 1601 1666, Wife of King Louis XIII of France 1615 (obverse), 1642 Anne of Austria, 1601-1666, Wife of King Louis XIII of France 1615 obverseFlorence Huston, Wooden Medallion, c 1936 Wooden Medallionof your faithful servants, God, crowns hope ", 1849 (title registered (letter)) Anonymous. From your faithful servants, God crowns hope, 1849.Jan XXIII i John KennedyThe Manufacturers Association Medal. Artist: UnknownGuillaume I, King of Prussia and German Emperor (1871-1888) (dummy title) Medal of Guillaume I, King of Prussia and German Emperor. Golden copper, between 1871 and 1888.Fia. Presentation medal of the central supplies of supplies. Bronze, 1980-1990. General Leclerc Museum of Hauteclocque and the Liberation of Paris, Jean Moulin Museum.Napoleon III (1808-1873) Proclaimed Emperor following the plebiscite of 21 and 22 November 1852 (dummy title) Robineau. Medal of Napoleon III (1808-1873) proclaimed Emperor following the plebiscite of November 21 and 22, 1852.Anonymous. "Pyramids, 1798". Silver copper rejected. 1798. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Napoleon Bonaparte standing harangating the French army represented by a sapper, a Mamluk and three grenadiers; In the background, the three pyramids of Giza; In the sky, three stars. Egypt campaign, Napoleonian conquest, pushed silver copper, French emperor, medal, pyramid, soldierCarnavalet museum, medal collection Right head of the count of Chambord on the right; Reverse registration on three lines.Christine de France, 1606-1663, Duchess of Savoy, Wife of Victor Amadeus I 1619, Regent 1637-1648. Dated: 1635. Dimensions: overall (height with suspension loop): 5.5 cm (2 3/16 in.) overall (diameter without loop): 5.62 cm (2 3/16 in.) gross weight: 17.44 gr (0.038 lb.). Medium: bronze//Cast hollow, with loop. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Guillaume Dupré.First medal of the National School of Fine Arts Jacques-Edouard Gardeaux (1788-1881). First medal of the National School of Fine Arts. Copper after 1870.Carnavalet museum, medal collection Head of head of face; Reverse registration on ten lines.Sixty -year anniversary of Queen Victoria of England 1897 ,, 1897 history medal Pewter medal with hole and carrying ring on blue ribbon with brass applique brittannia and brass ornamental pin, on the front the bust of Victoria to the left on Lauwertaks, with a change, the crowned English coat of arms on the reversed why five ribbons connected with ribbons, with a change. tin (metal). textile materials. brass (alloy) striking (metalworking)Bliżej Kultury unknown. Silver medal in diamond shape, partially enamelled and engraved, manufactured on the opportunity of the Wedding of Frans van Limborch and Geertruyt Bisschop in 1623.MEDAL OF FUNCTION OF MEMBER OF TREDGE, YEAR VIII (1800) Nicolas-Marie Gardeaux (1751-1832). Medal of function of member of the Tribunate, year VIII (1800). Golden bronze. 1800.Medal For the courage of the 4th gradePlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.J.P. Menger, Medal at the Centenary of the Bataafsch Society for Experimental Philosophy in Rotterdam, medallion medals bronze, Allegorical representation of the Invention, CERTOS FERET EXPERIENTIA FRUCTUS (circumscription) RERUM MAGISTRA (on the ribbon) Rotterdam W. van Rede Bataafsch Society of Experimental Philosophy Collection W van Rede Rotterdam.Toruń 2 ducats. Lauer Hans Dawid (1649-1669), mint tenant, Jan II Kazimierz Waza (król Polski ; 1648-1668), rulerSigismund III Vasa (1587-16320), Anne of Austria; 1594 Lehman, RudolfMedal: 1939 1940 war mobilization, RGT. ter. 71Medal on the mistrust of the Spaniards during the negotiations on the file, jeton utility medal medal exchange buyer, Mercury with staff offers Odysseus (Prins Maurits) the herb Moly to legend: (rose) MENTEMQVE MENVMQVE (heart and hand) top Moly Spain prince Maurits Mercury Odysseus Twelve year FileFestival of the Constitution in Strasbourg, November 19, 1848 (dummy title) Anonymous. Festival of the Constitution in Strasbourg, November 19, 1848.Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionPrices for the Chant and Choral Contest of the City of Paris Marcel Daniel-Dupuis (1849-1899). Prize for the singing and choral contest of the city of Paris. Money, circa 1880.Korendragers and Storters Guild of Amsterdam, Gildepenning van Hendrik Verleyn, Anonymous, 1773 medal Copper medal. Front: to the right man with a burden on head. Reverse: Inscription Amsterdam copper (metal) engraving AmsterdamBronze folding mirror with a depiction of Paniskos holding a situla and taking a goat to be sacrificed. Late 4th century -Early 3rd century BC.Nicolas Brenet (1770-1846). Conquest of Lower Egypt. Copper, 1798. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Medal, numismaticsMedal New Haven Congregational ChurchCouncil. Artist: UnknownJan Kazimierz (1649-1668), 200th anniversary of the Incorporage of Royal Prussia to Poland. Gdańsk jubilee medal with consent personification Höhn, Jan (St.; 1607 1664)Pi� VII (1742-1823), Benedictine monk, Pope (1800-1823), 1800 Pius VII (1742-1823), Benedictine monk, Pope (1800-1823). Copper Repousse and Golden, 1800.Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionMedal of AbrahamLincoln. Subject: Abraham Lincoln, American, 1809-1865 Artist: UnknownA Souvenir of the Coronation of the Image Notre Dame de Bonecours, Péruwelz, BelgiumSophocles, Grinks tragedy, godfried eartringer, 1687 - 1757 locket One -sided medallion in brass ring rear glass on bearing eye and carrying ring. Front: Breastpiece Man with Beard and wreath in her two -year -old change in Greek. Berlin gypsum. brass (alloy). glass castingBadge of a member of the Krakow City CouncilDuvivier, Pierre Simon Benjamin-(N.1730-11-05-D.1819-07-11), Battle of Cowpens (main title), 1781. Bronze copper alloy. Red brown patina. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.Planets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.The martyrs of freedom, 1793 The martyrs of freedom, 1793. Bronze.Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1622-94). Artist: Medalist: Massimiliano Soldani (Italian, Montevarchi 1656-1740 Montevarchi). Culture: Italian, Florence. Dimensions: Diam. 3 3/8 in. (86 mm.). Date: 1685. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Awarded by the State of New York to Commander Hartstene for His Successful Rescue of Dr. Kane. 1857 American This medal was awarded to Captain Henry Julius Hartstene (1812-1868) for the successful rescue of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857), the Artic explorer, in 1855. The obverse depicts two fur-clad men, a Native figure at left and Kane at right, standing on an ice shelf. Hartstenes ship appears at left center. On the reverse is a representation of the Seal of the State of New York.. Awarded by the State of New York to Commander Hartstene for His Successful Rescue of Dr. Kane.. American. 1857. GoldSports medal: canoeingPhotographic Exhibition in Wieliczka. unknown, creatorCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionAlbert III, 1443-1500, Duke of Saxony obverse. Dated: possibly 18th or 19th century. Dimensions: overall (oval, width): 3.06 cm (1 3/16 in.) overall (height without suspension loop): 3.7 cm (1 7/16 in.) overall (height with suspension loop): 4.6 cm (1 13/16 in.) gross weight: 22.68 gr (0.05 lb.) axis: 12:00. Medium: silver. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.First preband or annuity society in Amsterdam, in honor of the committee director G. de Waal.Gouden Penning. Front: Sowing farmer, illustrated by sun between two stuffed horns of abundance inscription; Cut out: inscription. Downside: inscription inside oak wreath and writingHyperpyron of Alexios I Komnenos by Numismatic, Ancient Coins Benaki Museum, Athens 1081-1118 Byzantium Gold Numismatics, Glyptics and Medals ObjectsPossibly Johann Georg Seidlitz, Joseph I, 1678 1711, Holy Roman Emperor 1705 (obverse), 1705 Joseph I, 1678-1711, Holy Roman Emperor 1705 obverseJean-Théodore Maurisset (1768-1825). Civil court. Red copper (obverse). Paris, Carnavalet museum. Medal, numismaticsCarnavalet museum, medal collectionAward medal, gold: exhibition of Podhale ShepherdsAssociation Francaise Pour L'Avancement des Sciences, 1890 1890 Medalist: Louis-Oscar Roty French. Association Francaise Pour L'Avancement des Sciences, 1890. Medalist: Louis-Oscar Roty (French, Paris 1846-1911 Paris). French. 1890. Bronze, silvered, struck (reverse only). Medals and PlaquettesReligious medal to the Virgin and Child ", XIXth century. Metal. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 102018-16Planets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Louis XIV (b. 1638, r. 1643-1715) 1674 Medalist: Jean Mauger. Louis XIV (b. 1638, r. 1643-1715) 199853Anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, February 24, 1849 (dummy title) Anonymous. Anniversary of the Revolution of 1848, February 24, 1849.150 years of existence of the Riflemens Brotherhood in Września (Wreschen). Deschler, Gustaw (Monachium ; zakład grawerski ; fl. ca 1904), creator1 Décime of Hieronymus Jérôme Napoléon fromStrasbourg. Ruler: Hieronymus Jérôme Napoléon, French, 1784-1860, ruled 1807-13 Mint: StrasbourgPlaque with Cupid and Lion 1775-1785 Burslem. Stoneware (jasperware) . Wedgwood Manufactory (Manufacturer)Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionCastel Sant' Angelo reverse. Dated: 1492/1503. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 5.65 cm (2 1/4 in.) gross weight: 61.06 gr (0.135 lb.) axis: 6:00. Medium: bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Roman 15th or 16th Century.General Trochu Member of the Government of National Defense, September 4, 1870 (Dimmer Title) General Trochu (1815-1896), Member of the Government of National Defense, September 4, 1870. Copper and Dorure, 1870.Planets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Planets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.D. van der Kellen sr., Medal in remembrance of the defense of the Citadel of Antwerp, penning footage copper, Antique warrior in right hand broken sword stands in defensive position at fragments of the citadel; with shield he tries to fend off four arrows, WHAT ALSO FALL WAS PAL (round sign) ANTWERP DECEMBER MDCCCXXXII signed VAN DER KELLEN F.Lithuanian Ducat; Zygmunt II August (Polish king; 1544-1572); 1563 (1547-00-00-1547-00-00);Antoine G�rard said Tabarin (1584-1635), comedian. Jean Warin or Varin (said John II, 1604-1672). Antoine G�rard says Tabarin (1584-1635), comedian. Golden bronze, around 1635.Gilt bronze coin depicting Louis XIII of France. Dated 17th CenturyHonor medal of the Gabelsberger Stenographer Association ViennaJacob van Dishoeck, Medal with city virgin and city weapon Rotterdam, Toolkit penning identification carrier silver, F: city virgin with weapon held by an angel from Rotterdam, ROTERODAMVM (Rotterdam) heraldry RotterdamFortune Chained to a Chariot Carrying Fame and France reverse. Dated: 1630. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 7.86 cm (3 1/8 in.) gross weight: 128.16 gr (0.283 lb.) axis: 12:00. Medium: bronze. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: JEAN WARIN.Republican Medal of Yonne, 1848 (dummy title) Anonymous. Republican Medal of Yonne, 1848.