Franciscus Cornelis Donders, medal struck in honour of his seventieth birthday
Also known as: Franciscus Cornelis Donders, penning geslagen ter ere van zijn zeventigste verjaardag
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1888
Franciscus Cornelis Donders, medal struck in honour of his seventieth birthday — Rijksmuseum object NG-161-1. Dated by the museum: 1888. Museum attribution: Ludwig Jünger; executor (maker): Willem Jacobus Schammer; executor (maker): Johan Philip Mathias Menger. Material: bronze (metal). Museum description: Bronze medal. Obverse: man's head in profile to the right + circumscription and two stars to the left and right. Reverse: Inscription within laurel wreath and circumscription. Marked; on the edge: caduceus. Obverse circumscription: FRANCISCVS CORNELVS DONDERS. DXXVII MAII A. MDCCCXVIII. MDCCCLXXXVIII. Reverse inscription: PER / VARIAS / GENTES / ILLVSTRIS / BATAVI / ADMIRHTIONE / JUNCTI. + (circumscription): IN / MEMORIAM / DIEI / QVO / CONDITVM PIVM CORPVS / IPSIVS / NOMINE / INSIGNE.
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Physical characteristics
- Materials
- bronze (metal)
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 6.6 cm x weight 134.89 g
Identification
- Original title
- Franciscus Cornelis Donders, penning geslagen ter ere van zijn zeventigste verjaardag
- Museum object number
- NG-161-1
- Museum classification
- erepenning
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