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Medal Martin Folkes
Location | United Kingdom |
Year | 1742 |
Type | Commemorative medals/Personality or portrait
medal |
Composition | Bronze |
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Diameter | 40 mm |
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Shape | Round |
Technique | Cast |
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Reference(s) | Eimer#572 |
Obverse description | Bust right |
Obverse lettering | MARTINVS FOLKES. |
Obverse script | Latin |
Reverse description | Sphinx right, pyramidical tomb of Caius Sestius within the walls of Rome behind, sun in splendour above |
Reverse lettering | SVA SIDERA NORVNT.
ROMÆ . A . L . s742. (Translation: His own constellations have acknowledged him) |
Reverse script | Latin |
Engraver | Rome, Italy (476-date) |
Mintage | 1742 - -
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Catalog ID | 8209756650 |
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