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New Member
United States
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What is this exactly, I've tried translators and all I can come up with is that it says it's marking the 500 year anniversary of the world. I've yet to see this on any website after hours and hours of searching, when I do a search on 1492 - 1992 , what I'm seeing is the 500 year anniversary of Christopher columbus . Any help is appreciated   |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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The NEW world.
"To 500 years of the discovery of two worlds."
Colon = Colombus
His name in Spanish is pretty funny since in English it would translate to colon, or I guess, colonist, which, is what Colombus represents for the rest of the Americas, i.e. colonialism.
Edited by Libertad
05/14/2010 8:02 pm
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New Member
 United States
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Yeah, at first from seeing all the hits for columbus when searching those dates, I tried to translate Colon and it only came out with Colon, which confused me even more after thinking maybe it was in fact Columbus. Still can't find any online information for it though, am trying to determine a value before I try and pass it on to a collector who would treasure it, as my treasure is my 63 chevy nova, and well, she isn't doin too good lol
Edited by 63okie
05/14/2010 8:14 pm
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Rest in Peace
United States
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"Encuentro" is more like "encounter", as in people from the old and new worlds meeting for the first time 500 years previous to 1992.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The scientist on the reverse might be Abraham Zacuto. Quote:
Mr. Zacuto was one of the leading scientists of his day. Among other things, he served as court astronomer and royal mathematician in Portugal. He drew up astronomical tables which enabled sailors to calculate latitudes without recourse to the sun's meridian and also to determine solar and lunar eclipses with accuracy. These tables saved Columbus and his crew from almost certain death when hostile natives confronted them in Jamaica. Knowing that a lunar eclipse was imminent, Columbus told the natives that he had power over the moon and sun and would permanently deprive them of light if anyone was harmed. A copy of Mr. Zacuto's tables, complete with Columbus's personal annotations, is preserved in Seville. From: http://muweb.millersville.edu/~colu...REITER01.ARTThe medal they refer to there is not the one you have, though.. it was made 6 years prior. |
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You're right. Encounter/meeting..
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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All right! They've got it!
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United States
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This is driving me insane, I've found what I think may be the engravers initials but not sure, F.ORE.P . The closest I've came to anything about this is literature about the " meeting of the two worlds " .
Either this is really special, or something that everyone has forgotten about, or haven't felt the need to talk about or archive online. I honestly can't remember where I even got it, probably an estate sale or random antique store most likely.
I'm thinking about maybe sending a mail to a couple of the history buffs that I found online that seem to know a lot about at least the other medals that commemorate things like this, hopefully that will lead me further.
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Germany
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That "Encounter of two worlds" motto, by the way, was also used on a whole series of silver coins in 1992. The Ibero-American series had 14 pieces from 14 different European and Central/South American countries which commemorated the 500th anniversary of this "Encuentro de dos mundos" (Spanish) and "Encontro de dois mundos" (Portuguese) ...
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