single year calendar medal
- Museum number
- 1901,1115.16
- Description
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Brass single year calendar medal.
Central calendar table of Sundays in each month; with inscriptions on all four sides including days of moveable feasts, Epact, Dominical Letter, and Golden Number; with name of issuer, place of production (?) and date of calendar.
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.
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 180 o'clock
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Diameter: 38 millimetres
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Weight: 14.65 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. 34 [reg. no. 1901,1115.17]), with a calendar corresponding to the Gregorian ordinary year Sunday letters E and an identical lunar table. 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 have been omitted. An explanation of the calendrical and lunar tables and a key to the movable feasts, Epact, Dominical Letter, and Golden Number are given [in Ackermann 2004] on pp. 6-13. For the memorable dates on the reverse, see [Ackermann 2004] cat. no. 39 [reg. no. J.3194]. Another medal by Blauwe for 1779 is known; see Sweeny, p. 19; Fuld, May 1972, p. 729 (N.BL.3, N.BL.5).
[Ackermann 2004, pp. 30, 31.]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
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Latest: 3 (Mar 2017)
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5 (Feb 1996) White deposit
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1901,1115.16
