Medal Weber Parkes Prize Medal
Features
| Location |
United Kingdom
 |
|---|---|
| Type | Award medals › Scholastic, academic and scientific awards |
| Year | 1894 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 51.4 g |
| Diameter | 50.7 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Cast |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 458749 |
| References | BHM# – Laurence Brown. British Historical Medals. B.A. Seaby, London, United Kingdom (3 volumes). John Harvey Pinches; 1987. Medals by John Pinches: A catalogue of works struck by the company from 1840 to 1969. Heraldry Today, London, United Kingdom. Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Leonard Forrer; 1904. Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin-Gem, and Seal engravers, Mintmasters, &c. Ancient and Modern / Volume I, A-D (Reviced). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom. |
Commemorative issue
Royal College of Physicians
Obverse
Bust of Hermann Weber left
Script: Latin
Lettering:
HERMANN WEBER.M.D . F.R.C.P. LONDON
1894
F. BOWCHER
FECIT
Engraver: Frank Bowcher
Reverse
Two naked men, one carrying a club and one carrying a branch and a woman in a head scarf and a long dress approach a half naked man seated with his feet on a foot stool and holding a cane
Script: Latin
Lettering:
WEBER PARKES PRIZE MEDAL
PREVENTION AND CVRE OF TVBERCVLOSIS
Engraver: Frank Bowcher
Mint
John Pinches Medallist Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1840-1980)Comments
(Description of reverse) Asklepios seated, with Demeter, Apollo and Herakles standing before him, symbolising the physician availing himself of he powers of Nature to cure. Awarded triennially from 1897 for work in the prevention and cure of tunerculosis. (Pinches)
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