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Medal - Visit to the Sala Silver Mine
| Location | Sweden |
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| Year | 1687 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate allegorical scene depicting the interior of the Sala silver mine in high relief: at lower center, King Charles XI and his entourage stand within a large underground cavern, while flanking galleries show miners at work with hammers, pickaxes, a wheelbarrow, and a fire pit. A central vertical shaft rises to the surface, with two buckets suspended on hoisting ropes, and radiating sunbeams emanating from above. The curved Latin legend on a ribbon arcs across the upper field beneath the rays. |
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| Reverse lettering | PERLVSTRAT · VISCERA · TERRÆ 1687 (Translation: He explores the bowels of the earth.) |
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