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Silver Medal: Supreme Metropolitan Council. Paris 1829

Date:- 1829 - Classification:- Order/Governing Body; Meeting

Country of Origin:- France -

Description

Obverse.—A triangle surrounded by rays, in the centre of which is a cross having the cypher “" (INRI). Legend, “Fiat lux et lux facta est” (Let there be light and there was light).

Reverse. —Five standards bound together by a ribbon. Legend, “SVP.’. CONV.’, METR,’. VAL,’. LYT’,’. PARl.’. I take the abbreviations to be for Suprema Conventio Metropolitana (in) Valle Lutctiac Parisiorum, ie., Supreme Metropolitan (orn Grand) Council in the valley of Paris, ‘the medal was struck for the Grand Council of the 33rd grade, previous to the winter of 1829-30, and is rare.