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Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Gold Medal: “Freemasons’ Ducat”. Nuremburg. 1743
Date:- 1743 - Classification:- Commemorative; Miscellaneous
Country of Origin:- Germany -
Description
OBVERSE: Figure of Harpocrates, nude but for his skin ‘full of eyes’, finger on lips, resting against the stump of a tree, a cornucopia in his left hand, from which Masonic implements fall. Around, FAVETE LINGVIS. and in ex: AEQVITAS CONCOR-/DIA ET VIR-/TVS.
REVERSE: A hand, issuing from a cloud, holding a level above a group of unhewn stones.By the group of stones is seated a figure, holding up a trowel in the right hand, and with the left applying the compasses to a block of Stone. Around, AEQVA LEGE SORTITVR INSIGNES ET IMOS
Properties
22 mm. Gold