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Valued Member
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I managed to get "Know HIM AND GOD " out of the rev but cant make anything readable out of the obverse. is it just me or does he look like a guy from Dr Who?   |
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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 means : 'know yourself and God'  can be 'domini' Seems to be a commemorative token of a religious person, perhaps a bishop, propably orthodox corrections welcome Edited by Petrus
06/08/2015 07:47 am
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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That's the Papal seal on the front, which is odd because the CatholiC church usually uses Latin while Greek is associated with the Orthodox.
Could be a jeton perhaps?
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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as Petrus said , I think it is a commemorative token. I read :
obv : ANT AYGOYSTIN Eriskilerd (not sure of the last letters )
rev : GNOTHI SAYTON KAI THEON * O (?) * S * , in the middle : CHR(ist) and alpha - omega = from the beginning to the end .
The expression 'gnoti sauton or seauton ' : know yourself , is from an inscription on one of the temples in Delphi in Greece and has been reused in the Thermi of Diocletianus in Rome on a mosaic, representing a skeleton.albert
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Valued Member
 United Kingdom
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Sorry I should have put the size 40mm and weight 19.8gram
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Indeed, Roman Catholic and not Greek Orthodox. The Greek letters read ANT AUGOUSTIN EPISK (episcopus) ILERD, for Antonio Agustín, Archbishop of Tarragona in Spain (Catalonia, really). ILERD stands for Ilerdense: of Lleida, or Lerida, a diocese subordinate to Tarragona. Agustín (d.1586) was a famed scholar of canon law. In particular, he championed the study of original Greek texts, rather than Latin manuscripts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni...n_y_Albanell |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If this medal came from the same place as the last one you posted, that must have been one collection with a really narrow focus! That collector must have been fun at cocktail parties:
"So, got any hobbies? I like fly-fishing."
"I collect bronze medals depicting Roman Catholic canon law jurists of the 16th and 17th centuries."
"Yeah, I think I'll go to the bar..."
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Pillar of the Community
Belgium
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gnothi sauton , Rome.albert  |
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from the ticket that was with it, it looks like my Father in Law has had this in the "what the heck is this" drawer, since 1975 - this is where all my most interesting stuff comes from, as payment for taking all the photo's for and running his web site. would post a link to it but don't want to get in trouble here.
may very well have come from the same interesting blokes collection back then.
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