1890/93

Silver Medal: 25th Year of the Reign of King Charles XIV. 1842

Date:- 1843 - Classification:- Person; Anniversary

Country of Origin:- Sweden -

Description

Struck at Stockholm, in 1843, by the Grand Lodge, to commemorate the Quarter Centennial of the reign of Charles XIV., Grand Master. He was better known as Jean Baptiste Jule Bernadotte, the distinguished soldier and Marshal of France, under Napoleon. Merzdorf gives the name of Du Culler as Lundberg. It should be Lundgren, as below. See also Hildebrand II., 349.

OBVERSE.—Bust of King Charles to the right, under which in small letters, “L.P. Lnndgren F.” Legend, “Carolus XIV. Johanues Rex Suec Et Norv. Snpr. Mag. Et. Protector.” (Charles XIV., John, King of Sweden and Norway, Supreme Master and Protector).

REVERSE.—On the right is an altar, formed of a cubic stone, on which is a crown; a sword and sceptre rests upon a cushion. The face of the altar bears the letters XXV., surrounded by two palm branches. On the pedestal lie the square, compasses, and level. Nearthe altar is a standard, bearing the emblem of the Grand Master’s rank. On the left is the radiant sun. Legend above, “Hand Diminuto Splendore” (with undiminished lustre). In exergue in three lines, “In Mem. Anni Jubilaei MDCCCXLIII. L.L.FII. Mur. Sveci.” (In memory of the Jubilee year 1843, the Swedish Freemasons have struck this). Surrounding the field in a border, divided into eight parts, are the words “Septe Mtrio I * I Ori*Ens I * I Meri Dies I ~I Occi*Dens I I “ (North, East,

Properties

56 mm. Silver