Medallion - Independent order of Rechabites

Medallion - Independent order of Rechabites - obverseMedallion - Independent order of Rechabites - reverse

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Features

Location United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
Type Unclassified exonumia › Miscellaneous token
Composition Zinc
Weight 25.17 g
Diameter 43.73 mm
Thickness 2.98 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
77582

Obverse

Crest with name and biblical quotation

Script: Latin

Lettering:
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RECHABITES
THE SONS OF RECHAB DRINK NO WINE OR STRONG DRINK

Reverse

Group scene surround by quote from Luke 1:15

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FOR HE SHALL BE GREAT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD AND SHALL DRINK NEITHER WINE OR STRONG DRINK
LUKE c. 1 v. 15

Edge

Plain

Medallion - Independent order of Rechabites -  obverse

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Mint

Birmingham, England (1850-date)

Comments

J Taylor of Birmingham

The order began was founded on 25 August 1835 as the Salford Unity of Rechabites, at the town of Salford, near Manchester, England. Their first lodge was ""Tent Ebenezer #1" and soon "tents" would be founded for adult females (over the age of 12), boys (aged 12–16), and for children of both sexes (age 5-12), as well as other adult males (age 16 and up.)
The rituals and ceremonies of the Rechabites varied from place to place, but the order worked three degrees, Knight of Temperance, Knight of Fortitude, and Covenanted Knight of Justice. Lodges were called tents because the Lord commanded the Biblical sons of Rechab to live in tents and the governing body.
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