Historical Medals

A collection of various historical copper and bronze medals featuring intricate designs, inscriptions, and depictions of notable figures and events.

De Spanjer, show engraved on a Dutch Gift, Anonymous, 1702 - 1780 medal. coin Copper medal. Front: Standing man, with back to viewer, leaning on a walking stick indoors. Reverse: Original show: Leeuw with freedom hat on spear, standing in fenced garden; About it: scratches Dordrecht copper (metal) engraving / striking (metalworking)  Holland
De Spanjer, show engraved on a Dutch Gift, Anonymous, 1702 - 1780 medal. coin Copper medal. Front: Standing man, with back to viewer, leaning on a walking stick indoors. Reverse: Original show: Leeuw with freedom hat on spear, standing in fenced garden; About it: scratches Dordrecht copper (metal) engraving / striking (metalworking) Holland
Battle of Blenheim, Mathematics Made in honor of Anna Stuart, Queen of England, Johann Gottlieb Lauffer, 1704 live Copper medal. Front: breastpiece woman inside Cover. Downside: Helmde Minerva with shield, spear and palm branch, standing next to Waptrophea Inside Waptrophee; Cut: Inscription Nuremberg copper (metal) striking (metalworking)  Blenheim. HighlyPeace of Nijmegen, Mathematics Made by order of the Chambre Aux Deniers, in honor of Louis XIV, King of France, monogram Mist L (medalur), 1679 live Copper medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Downside: Displaced by radiant sun keeps peace olive branch in vast right and stuffed horn of abundance in the left hand within Koverschrift; Cut: Inscription France copper (metal) striking (metalworking)  NijmegenFifty-year commemoration of the appearance of Cossacks for Utrecht (Kozakjes day) 1863, small model, 's Rijks Munt, 1863 history medal Bronze Penning, on the front the Utrecht city coat of arms, between Lauwerertaks, on a lance with freedom hats and ribbon, at the bottom of the dates 1813 - 1863, three lines of text with shifting on the reverse. Utrecht bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)City of Liège, Penning awarded for courage and dedication, Léonard Jéhotte, 1828  Bronze medal. Front: Blanco field under Eikekrans Inside Covering. Reverse: Inscription Liège bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  LiègeDe Spanjer, show engraved on a Dutch Gift, Anonymous, 1702 - 1780 medal. coin Copper medal. Front: Standing man, with back to viewer, leaning on a walking stick indoors. Reverse: Original show: Leeuw with freedom hat on spear, standing in fenced garden; About it: scratches Dordrecht copper (metal) engraving / striking (metalworking)  HollandCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionBenevolence of Maria Elisabeth, governors of the Southern Netherlands, Jacques Roëttiers (II), 1741  Bronze medal. Front: breastpiece Woman with diadem inside Cover. Downside: kneeling people picking manna, who falls from heaven off the ground, in the midst of them, Moses stands in front of a tent; Cut: Inscription Antwerp bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Prison in Ghent, Huismunt worth five cents, Anonymous, in or after 1823 - in or before 1833 coin Sink mint. Front: Inscription. Reverse: value indication; On the left a knock: Tempted coat of arms.  zinc striking (metalworking)  GhentMandatory to charity, Jean François Antoine BOVY, 1824 - 1873 history medal Bronze medal. Front: Image of Christ in Jackenkrans. Reverse: Church building inside Germany inside  bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Inauguration of Frans II, German Emperor as Count of Hainaut, Anonymous, 1792 history medal Bronze medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Reverse: two collapsed hands from clouds for Mercury Staff between two corners above burning altar inside Covering; Cut: Inscription Brussels bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  HainautCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionEstablishment of the July column in Paris 1840, Montagny, 1840 history medal Bronze medal, on the front the storming of the Bastille with at the top of the change, on the reverse the July column with caption and reversal.  bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)GREASKOPERS GILDE OF ANTWERP, Anonymous, 1605 medal Copper medal. Front: Three together -bound Courses between the year within Kerschrift. Reverse: Castle between two opened hands within Covering Antwerp copper (metal) striking (metalworking)  AntwerpPlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.½ cents from Malacca, Prince of Wales Island or Pulu Penang, 1787 ,, 1787 coin Copper mint. Front: Heart -shaped brand of the English East India Company (EIC), including star. Year on either side of the brand. Reverse: four -line inscription in Arabic characters: Jesirah Prince Abwails. Smooth edge.  copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Take of Conde by Louis XIV, King of France, Anonymous, 1676 live Copper medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Downside: Three water jugs representing the Scheldt, Aisne and Haisne rivers with Mercury Staff with Palm and Lauwertak in Koverschrift; Cut: Ornament Paris copper (metal) striking (metalworking)  CondéEeds on the French Republican Constitution 1793, Claude Duvivier, 1793 history medal Copper medal, on the front France as a woman with phases and scepter with fig's hat on a throne decorated with shooting shelter, with a shift and cut -out text, a sunbraaded book, including nine lines of text.  copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Twelve and a half years of marriage of K.H.A. van Heeckeren van Brandsenburg and A.M. STRAALMAN, Anonymous, 1822  Bronze medal. Front: inscription within Myrtekrans and Dischanging. Reverse: inscription. Jubilee medal in honor of twelve and half -year marriage. Netherlands bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Ten -day campaign 1831, Johannes Petrus Schouberg, 1831 history medal Bronze medal, on the front the portrait of King William I to the left with a change, a sitting soldier in antique clothing on the reverse, with a spear on which two urban crowns, next to a lying lion with a bundle of arrows. Utrecht bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionDang of the VOC from Holland, 1793, United Oostindische Compagnie, 1793 coin Copper mint. Front: crowned coat of arms of Holland. Reverse: monogram of the VOC, above which mint sign and including the year. Smooth edge. Dordrecht copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Grahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Victory of the Spaniards at Rethel, Jean Mauger, 1699 - 1703 history medal Bronze medal. Front: Breastpiece Jongeman (Lodewijk XIV) within Covering. Reverse: Victory with shield and spear tramples the discord within Omschrift Paris bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  Rethel. ChampagneGetting married service at the Army, Jean Henri Simon, 1825  Bronze medal. Front: crowned ermine cloak; then letter W. Rail side: crowned coat of arms, surrounded by banners, a cannon, anchor, drum, rifle, hellaard, stacking bullets, harness, the Degen and the like in the change; Cut: signature Brussels bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Medal of William Washington, the Battle of theCowpens.  Subject: William Washington, American, 1752-1810 Mint: Paris Artist: Benjamin Duvivier, French, 1730-1819Correction house St. Bernhard in Hemiksem, house coin worth five cents, Anonymous, in or after 1823 - in or before 1833 coin Sink mint. Front: inscription Inside Capers. Reverse: value indication; Left knock: Paardekop.  zinc striking (metalworking)  GhentCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionMedal La Victoire du Droit,1919. Artist: Anie Mouroux, French, 1887-1978Carnavalet museum, tokens collection1 Scudo of Duke Odoardo Farnese fromUnknown . Ruler: Odoardo Farnese, Italian, 1612-1646 Artist: UnknownCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionHollandsche Maatschappij van Fraaije Arts and Sciences, Hendrik Lageman, 1806 - 1818 award medal Bronze medal. Front: standing on an increase next to altar, against which Lier and Bazuin are located, wife receives an antique clothing, representing poetry, roll of paper from young man, who partially bent on her touch; With raised right hand she points to the temple of fame on hilltop; cut; Coat of arms, hanging with flower guirles. Road side: Blanco field within Lauwerkrans and Dischanging Amsterdam bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  AmsterdamCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionHuismunt beaten by order of the Society of Benevolence worth 50 cents, for the ordinary colonies, Anonymous, 1818 - 1859 coin Front: Inscription top value indication. Tours side: inscription G and K Netherlands copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionPlanets-manager. Cornalet Collection Sites 2013-2016. Numismatic.Centime from France, the third Republic, 1878 ,, 1878 coin Bronze mint. Front: Portrait of a woman with wreath and diadem to the left. Reverse: Within two tied branches value designation in two lines, including the letter A = Paris. Smooth edge. Paris bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Church of Liège, Anonymous, 1686  Copper medal. Front: skilled above two crossed bones and year within the change. Reverse: two crossed bones; In between two sparks within Kernschrift  copper (metal) striking (metalworking)  LiègeCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionHuismunt beaten by order of the Society of Benevolence worth 2 cents, for the ordinary colonies, Anonymous, 1818 - 1859 coin Unilateral sinking mint of 2 cents. Front: Inscription top value indication. Reverse: Blanco. Netherlands zinc striking (metalworking)Medal of the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, presented to Karl F. Leinonen in1918.  Maker: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, 1869-1924 Subject: Karl F. Leinonen, American, 1866-1957St. Jacques in Luik, Jacob Wiener, 1846 history medal Bronze medal. Front: church building within a two -way change; Cut: inscription and signature. Reverse: interior of church Brussels bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  Saint-Jacques (Liège)The Century PlantMedal. Artist: UnknownDeath of William IV, Johan George Holtzhey, 1751 history medal Golden medal. Front: breastpiece man under star wreath inside Cover. Tours side: Graftombe with inscription above inside Inside Inside Cover Amsterdam gold (metal) striking (metalworking)Inauguration of Willem II, King of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Anonymous, 1840  Bronze medal. Front: Kroon, lying on crossed scepter and staff, and on a book with the inscription "Constitution" within Overschrift. Reverse: Inscription Netherlands bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  AmsterdamCarnavalet museum, medal collectionCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionWorld Exhibition in the Palais de l'Imnderie in Paris, in honor of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, Armand Auguste Caqué, 1855 history medal Front: Woman with jet wreath on Head stands on an elevation decorated with imperial eagle and holds a wreath with each of the two hands above the two -sided crowned women, representing art and industry within Koverschrift; Cut: Inscription. Reverse: View of Maison de l'Imnderie within Covering; cut; inscription Paris composition (material) striking (metalworking)  ParisThird century celebration at the augment of the Augsburg creed on the Reichstag, in honor of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, Johann Jakob Neuss (Der Jüngere), 1830 history medal Silver medal. Front: breastpiece of two men inside Cover. Reverse: Bishop's Palace in Augsburg in the year 1530 within Overschruise; Cut: Inscription Germany silver (metal) striking (metalworking)  AugsburgInauguration of William III as King of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, Johannes Petrus Schouberg, 1849  Bronze medal. Front: open book on crossed scepter and sword inside to wreath-tied orange and eagle branch under Kroon. Tours side: inscription inside laurel wreath under star within Omschrift Netherlands bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  AmsterdamGrahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Medal of Belgian Medal: The Work of the Barbarians (LOeuvre des Barbares). Artist: Marcelle-Renée Lancelot-Croce, French, 1854-1938Dutch Cent, 1822, Willem I (King of the Netherlands), 1822 coin Copper mint. Front: Between the year crowned straight letter W. Rail side: between value designation 1 C. Crowned Rijksweapin shield. Smooth edge. Utrecht copper (metal) striking (metalworking)4 Duiten van Suriname, 1679 ,, 1679 coin Copper mint. Front: a parrot on a branch with four leaves. In addition, value indication: 4. Year: an. 1679 in the cut below. Reverse: an ornamental tree or slippery.  copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionHuismunt van de Kolo9nies Rijkevorsel and Merksplas worth five cents, Anonymous, in or after 1823 - in or before 1839 coin Sink mint. Front: Monogram of letters R and M above mark. Reverse: Value designation. Brussels zinc striking (metalworking)Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionSt. Bavo in Ghent, Jacob Wiener, 1846 history medal Bronze medal. Front: church building within a three -line change; Cut: Inscription. Reverse: interior of church Brussels bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  Sint-BaafskathedralCarnavalet museum, medal collectionCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionWilliam I, King of the Netherlands, Penning of the first size, Auguste Francois Michaut, 1819 award medal Silver medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Reverse: Blanco Field Inside Myrtekrans Brussels silver (metal) striking (metalworking)Opening of the North Sea Canal, in honor of William III, King of the Netherlands, Penning taken by the Amsterdam canal Maatschappij, Edouard Louis Geerts, 1876 history medal Bronze medal. Front: breastpiece man with oak wreath inside change. Reverse: inscription. Brussels bronze (metal) striking (metalworking) / gilding  North Sea CanalGrahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Carnavalet museum, medal collectionCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionExcension from Napoleon Bonaparte to St. Helena, Thomas Webb, 1815 - 1821 history medal Bronze medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Reverse: Napoleon with head resting on hand sitting on stone; For him, winged woman kneels, who holds him writing feather and points with a stick to partially unpredicted piece of paper; In addition, flying fame blows on Bazuin; Cut: Inscription Birmingham bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  Sint-HelenaCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionMedallion (reverse). Jean Paul Aube (French, 1837-1916). Bronze; overall: 3.5 x 2.9 cm (1 3/8 x 1 1/8 in.).Medal The Mayflower. The PilgrimFathers. Artist: UnknownTwenty -five anniversary of art they do our goal in Haarlem 1846, Bemme, 1846 history medal Penning of Letter Specie, on the front drawing as a sitting woman with slates and griffel, with a change and cut -out text, four lines of text on the reverse side.  tin (metal) castingChristiaan Huygens, famous researcher, part of the Numismatica Universalis Virorum Illustrium series by Amédée Durand., Amédée Pierre Durand, 1821 history medal Bronze medal. Front: breastpiece man inside change. Reverse: Inscription Paris bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Defense of Gibraltar, in honor of George Augustus Elliot, Baron Heathfield, Johann Christian Reich, 1783 history medal Silver medal. Front: breastpiece man with hat inside. Reverse: shooting of rock from Gibraltar by fleet within the Omnipia; Cut: year Fürth silver (metal) striking (metalworking)  GibraltarFirst centenary of the Aalmoezeniersweeshuis in Amsterdam, Johan George Holtzhey, 1766 history medal Silver medal. Front: under tree, in which shield with inscription hangs and of which tribe is wound with ribbon with inscription, sitting woman; Next to her stands against the tree an inverted horn of abundance, from which grain, money and a torch roll; In the foreground, Kind lies on the ground, which is covered by a woman with veil; On the right two crying children sheltered by all -seeing eye in a radiant triangle inside Kischruise; Cut: Inscription. Reverse: Crowned coat of arms surrounded by fourteen with ribbon bound coats of regents and regents of the orphanage within Overschrift Amsterdam silver (metal) striking (metalworking)  Amsterdam. Almsian orphanageCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionSuccesses of the allies in Spain and Brabant, Martin Schmeltzing, 1706 history medal Silver medal. Front: Sun above that part of globe that Europe represents clouds; Cut: year. Reverside: Spring sign with, grouped around Portrait Medail of Karel III, three fields surrounded by laurel branches, on which performances of Barcelona's intake, a battle of Ramillies and intake of Madrid within Dischanging. Amsterdam silver (metal) striking (metalworking)  Barcelona. Madrid. Ramillies-offus. BRABANTCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionMedal: Gustaf Wappers, 1800s. 19th century. Bronze; diameter: 5.1 cm (2 in.).Grahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Grahal-Manzara. Carnavalet 2013-2016 collection sites. Numismatics.Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionNational Foundals Ommerschans and Veenhuizen, Huismunt beaten by order of the Society of Benevolence worth ½ cent, Anonymous, 1848 coin Sink mint. Front: Letters O and V. Championship: Inscription Boven Value designation Netherlands zinc striking (metalworking)  Ommerschans. VeenhuizenBliżej Kultury unknown, Dassier, JeanCarnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionHuismunt beaten by order of the Society of Benevolence worth 50 cents, for the ordinary colonies, Anonymous, 1818 - 1859 coin Front: Inscription top value indication. Tours side: inscription G and K Netherlands copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet Museum, Medals CollectionDouble Determen in the name of the VOC and the city of Utrecht with Jaartal1790, Willem II (King of the Netherlands), 1840 - 1843 coin Copper mint. Front: on the beam, including Garlande, standing, crowned coat of arms of the city of Utrecht. Reverse: monogram of the VOC, above which mint sign star and including fictional year 1790. Smooth edge. Surabaya copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Sir Henry Stanley, British explorer, told by order of the Council, the Royal Geographic Society and the Chamber of Commerce of Antwerp, Francois Ignace Baetes, 1890  Bronze medal. Front: crowned coat of arms of Antwerp, hanging with leafwoof, flanked by half naked man and woman with club over shoulder inside. Reverse: Inscription under radiant star within Lauwerkrans and Overschrift. Antwerp bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)  Antwerp. AfricaPenny from the Robert Hyde & Co company in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1857 ,, 1857 coin Copper private currency. Front: in four lines of firm indication and address designation. Below that place designation. Reverse: in four lines of firm indication. Year at the bottom of the change. Smooth edge.  copper (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionCarnavalet museum, tokens collectionOne Cent Euro coin One Cent Euro coin currency of the European Union - Germany Copyright: xZoonar.com/ClaudioxDiviziax 9209789Central SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS, Eugène André Oudiné, 1848 - 1850 award medal Bronze medal. Front: Portrait woman, whose head is crowned with number of buildings; Left passer. Reverse: Passer and flower Inside Cover. Paris bronze (metal) striking (metalworking)Carnavalet museum, tokens collectionJoan Derk van der Capellen to the Pol again admitted to the States of Overijssel and abolishing the Drostendiensten, Johan George Holtzhey, 1783 history medal Silver medal. Front: freedom with hat on head is on broken column, resting on pedestal; In her right hand, she holds coat of arms, crowned with oak wreath, in the left hand, a crowned eye crowned; on pedestal coat of arms, hanging on Garlande; Next to column is farmer, resting on his spade; In the background of the river in the background; Cut: two crossed palm branches. Reverse: inscription under radiant sun and upstairs shepherds, scythe and bag with leaf branches under hat Amsterdam silver (metal) striking (metalworking)  Overijssel