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Medal - Indonesia Solar Eclipse 1983
| Location | Indonesia (1949-date) |
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| Year | 1983 |
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| Composition | Copper (with Colouring) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a stylised Balinese demon face (Kala) in high relief, depicted in the act of swallowing the sun, represented by a spoked wheel or solar disc held in its jaws, with elaborate decorative scrollwork and flames above. The circumferential legend runs around the border, with decorative ray motifs in the outer field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a relief map of the Indonesian archipelago in the central field, with two parallel lines marking the path of totality of the solar eclipse traversing the islands from west to east, rendered as a segmented band. A solar corona motif appears at the top of the field above the legend. Time and date details are inscribed in the lower exergue. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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