Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Medal - Karolinska Institute

Location Sweden
Year 1981
Type Award medal
Composition Gold (.750)
Weight 176.9 g
Diameter 66.00 mm
Thickness
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation
Edge
Period
Notice
Reference(s)
Obverse description Bust of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel facing left, wearing tuxedo and bow tie.
Obverse script Latin
Obverse lettering NAT • MDCCC XXXIII OB • MDCCC XCVI ALFR • NOBEL E • LINDBERG 1902
Reverse description Genius of Medicine, sitting, facing left, wearing toga and laurel wreath, holding open book in her lap, collecting the water pouring out from a rock in order to quench a sick girl’s thirst. Sick girl standing to the right, facing left, wearing toga.
Reverse script Latin
Reverse lettering INVENTAS • VITAM • IUVAT EXCOLUISSE • PER • ARTES NATURA SCIENTIA E • LINDBERG REG • UNIVERSITAS MED • CHIR • CAROL • S . BERGSTRÖM MCMLXXXII
(Translation: It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts. The Royal University of Medicine and Surgery Karolinska.)
Mintage
Numisquare ID 6559496060
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