single year calendar medal
- Museum number
- J.3194
- Description
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Brass single year calendar medal. (whole)
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Central calendar table of Sundays in each month; with inscriptions on all four sides giving days of moveable feasts, Epact, Dominical Letter, and Golden Number; with name of issuer, place of production and date of calendar. (obverse)
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Central table of dates of New and Full Moons; with inscriptions on all four sides, giving memorable dates for the pope and rulers of the Austrian Netherlands. (reverse)
- Production date
- 1776
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 180 o'clock
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Diameter: 38 millimetres
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Weight: 15.54 grammes
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- Curator's comments
- The layout of this medal is very similar to the Powell medal of the same year ([Ackermann 2004] cat. no. 33; [reg. no. 1901,1115.15]), with a calendar corresponding to the Gregorian leap year Sunday letters G/F and an identical lunar table. Here, as there, Lent is given for 21 February when 20 February would be correct. The major differences lie in the language, as all inscriptions are in French, while the memorable dates all refer to the Austrian Netherlands and the law terms and Epact have been omitted. An explanation of the calendrical and lunar tables and a key to movable feasts and Golden Number are given [in Ackermann 2004] on pp. 6-13.
As a result of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the southern Netherlands (comprising present-day Belgium and Luxembourg) had come under the sovereignty of the Holy Roman emperor Charles VI, head of the Austrian branch of the house of Hapsburg. At his death in 1740, the territory passed to his daughter Maria Theresa (1717-1780), briefly interrupted by French occupation between 1744 and 1748. Maria Theresa became queen of Hungary and Bohemia in 1740 and, as wife of Francis I Stephen, empress of Austria in 1745. Her son and successor Joseph II (1741-1790) became king of the Romans on 27 March 1764 (not 1763) and emperor in 1765. Charles Alexander duke of Lorraine (1712-1780), the fourth son of Leopold of Lorraine and brother of Francis I, was governor of the Austrian Netherlands until his death. Giannangelo Braschi was born on 25 (not 27) December 1717 in Cesena and was elected pope on 15 February 1775, at which point he adopted the name Pius VI.
[Ackermann 2004, p. 30]
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- J.3194
