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Alimentarium Vevey
| Location | Switzerland (1848-date) |
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| Diameter | 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing three lines of raised lettering in lowercase sans-serif type reading ALIMENTARIUM / food museum / Vevey, with a beaded border surrounding the entire design. Along the lower inner border, a curved legend names Switzerland in four languages. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Relief depiction of the Alimentarium museum building in Vevey, shown in three-quarter perspective with a prominent oversized fork in the left foreground, its handle extending toward the upper field. The neoclassical facade of the museum is rendered in fine detail, with a decorative fence visible in the lower field. A beaded border frames the design. |
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