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Silver Medal: Lodge Archimedes of the Three Trestle Boards. Altenburg 1804

Date:- 1804 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Anniversary

Country of Origin:- Germany -

Description

Marvin states that this medal is very rare in perfect condition, as both dies cracked, that of the obverse apparently early, showing first over the E in loge, and afterwards in several other places in exergue. This impression has only a very slight blemish. Merzdorf gives the date of mintage as 1804. In Mar., 1804, this Lodge, founded at Altenburg, Germany, in 1802, declared itself free and independent, and has since remained so.

Obverse.—Archimedes to right, seated on a cubic stone, holds a trestle-board, on which he describes a circle with the compasses; at his feet on the right are two trestle.boards, on which are mathematical diagrams alluding to properties of the circle, thespiral, cone, &c., and near them a square and protractor; near the edge, Loos in small letters; rays from the rising sun illumine the field at the right; on the left is the fallen capital of a pillar. Legend, above, “Noli Tnrbare Cireulos” (Do not willingly disturb the circles.). In exergue, in three lines, “Loge Archimedes zu den drey I reissbretern” (The Lodge Archimedes of the Three Trestle Boards).Reverse.—The lodge building, a long edifice of one story, with high roof, three windows on each side of acentral porch, which is supported by four Doric pillars; in the pediment is a minute representation of the obverse, Archimedes, &c. In the foreground, on the right, Minerva leads towards the central door a youth, who has a chart in his left hand. In exergue, in three lines, “Gegrundet I Den 12 August I 1802” (Founded August 12, 1802).

It is engraved in M., Plate 11, Fig. 42.

Properties

36 mm. Silver