Medal - Numismatic Congress IV Central American and the Caribbean

Commemorative issue

IV Central American Numismatic Congress

Obverse

Image of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Comayagua, Honduras with shinning rays at the back.
Real Casa de la Moneda of Madrid, Spain crowned logo (Madrid's mint) at the side of the main tower, surrounded by two legends separated by two baroque volutes and six stars representing each spanish speaking central american country and border of pointed denticles.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IV CONGRESO CENTROAMERICANO DE NUMISMÁTICA 2019
SAN PEDRO SULA, HONDURAS
CATEDRAL DE LA INMACULADA CONCEPCIÓN, COMAYAGUA ★★★★★★

Translation:
IV Central American Numismatic Congress 2019
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Comayagua

Designers: José Baldemar Turcios, Jorge Alberto De Jesús Bueso

Reverse

Baroque style map of the central American isthmus.
At the lower left side of the map an image of the navigation star with a shining sun as the center, located in the South-West quadrant, from whose points the navigation lines come out coinciding with the degrees of latitude, a fleur-de-lis is located on the North peak. At the upper right side of the map the symbol of a dolphin around Neptune's trident. Surrounded by astrolabe ring marking the degrees of latitude from 0° to 90° as well as the months in latin inside a border of pointed denticles surrounded by a legend and the names of each spanish speaking central american country.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
IV CONGRESO CENTROAMERICANO DE NUMISMÁTICA 2019
GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMÁ

Translation:
IV Central American Numismatic Congress 2019

GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA COSTA RICA PANAMÁ

Designers: José Baldemar Turcios, Jorge Alberto De Jesús Bueso

Mint

(M)	Royal Mint of Madrid (Real Casa de la Moneda de Madrid), Spain (1591-date)

Comments

In the center of the main tower you can see (with the help of a magnifying tool) the cathedral clock, which is the oldest clock in the Americas still functioning:


It comes in a high quality blue container:

See also

• Religious building
• Map
• Mythology
• Fleur-de-lis

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