Médaille - Juste Lipse Série "Des grands hommes de la Belgique"

Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality or portrait medal
Years 1848-1850
Composition Bronze
Weight 40.47 g
Diameter 46.4 mm
Thickness 4.3 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
310286

Obverse

The left bust of Juste LipseAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
JUSTE LIPSE NÉ EN
1547 - MORT EN 1606
JOUVENEL

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

In the upper field, an engraving depicts six books, three open and three closed, placed on a writing table with inkwell and quill.
A five-petal flower at the bottom concludes the text in the main field, describing the highlights of his life.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
JUSTI LIPSII OPERA (livre 1)
TACITII OPERA (livre 2)
DE CONTANTIA LIB. II (livre 3)
CRITIQUE, HISTORIEN, PHILOLOGUE,
POLITIQUE, PHILOSOPHE.
IL FUT TOUR A TOUR
PROFESSEUR A GENA, A LEYDE
ET A L’UNIVERSITÉ DE LOUVAIN
DONT IL EST UNE DES GLOIRES.
SES NOMBREUX OUVRAGES ONT
EU EN LEURS TEMPS UNE
VOGUE IMMENSE.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Plain

Comments

From 1848 to 1850, Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel engraved and published in Brussels a collection of 25 bronze medals in 46 mm modules, depicting portraits of "Belgium's great men". Each was sold at the time for 4 Belgian francs.
34 mm bronze or brass tokens reproducing some of these medals were also engraved, to make the publication accessible to all, according to the prospectus of the time, with a more democratic selling price of 50 centimes.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1848-1850) 

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