single year calendar medal
- Museum number
- 1901,1115.18
- 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; with name of issuer, place of production and date of calendar.
Central table of dates of New and Full Moons; with apparently randomly placed dots between some of the lunar symbols and associated numbers; with inscriptions on all four sides giving the law terms, royal anniversaries, Golden Number, Epact, and Dominical Letter.
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 180 o'clock
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Diameter: 38 millimetres
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Weight: 12.34 grammes
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- Curator's comments
- The calendar table follows the layout for an ordinary year in the Gregorian calendar with the Dominical Letter G. There are a few errors in the lunar table: New Moon in January should read 24 (not 25); Full Moon in July should read 5 (not 6); Full Moon in September should read 2 (not 3); Full Moon in October should be 2 (not 3). Trinity Term started 15 (not 26) May and ended 4 (not 14) June. An explanation of the calendrical and lunar tables and a key to the movable feasts, royal anniversaries, law terms, Golden Number and Epact are given [in Ackermann 2004] on pp. 6-13.
[Ackermann 2004, p. 29]
See also Ackermann 2004, cat. no. 36 (reg. no.1958,1006.3054).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
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Latest: 3 (Mar 2017)
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5 (Feb 1996) Yellowish deposit.
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1901,1115.18