Medal - To the builder of the Göta Canal, Erik Hagström
Features
| Location |
Sweden
 |
|---|---|
| King |
Charles XIV John (Karl XIV) (1818-1844)
|
| Type | Award medals › Scholastic, academic and scientific awards |
| Year | 1843 |
| Composition | Bronze |
| Weight | 13.27 g |
| Diameter | 31 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Number | N# 483984 |
| References | Hildebrand# – Bror Emil Hildebrand; 1874. Sveriges och Svenska Konungahusets Minnespenningar Prakmynt och Belöningsmedaljer = Sweden's and the Swedish Royal House's Commemorative Coins Precious Coins and Reward Medals. Kongl. Vitterhets Historie och Antiquitets Akademiens Förlag, Stockholm, Sweden. |
Obverse
Portrait of Erik Hagström facing right.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ER· HAGSTRÖM SUPR· DIR· EQU· DE ORD· WAS·
NAT· 1760 DENAT· 1827
Unabridged legend:
Erik Hagström Supremus Director Equitis De Ordinibus Wasastjernæ
Natus 1760 Denatus 1827
Translation:
Erik Hagström Supreme Director of the Order of the Knights of Wasastjernа
Born in 1760, Died in 1827
Engraver: Mauritz Frumerie
Reverse
Sluice gate with ship.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
TE FIUVII TE SAXA LOQUUNTUR
SOC· MERITISS
REC· AC· SC· SVEC·
MDCCCXLIII
Unabridged legend:
Societas Meritissimi
Rectores Academiae Scientiarum Sveciae
Translation:
Rivers speak of you, stones speak of you
The Most Meritorious Society of Rectors of the Swedish Academy of Sciences
1843
Engraver: Mauritz Frumerie
Edge
Plain
Comments
Erik Hagström (1760-1827) - senior engineer, the builder of the Göta Canal.
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