Medal on the Peace of Aachen and the first centenary of the Peace of Münster, in honour of William IV
Also known as: Penning over de Vrede te Aken en het eerste eeuwfeest van de vrede van Munster, ter ere van Willem IV
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1748
Silver medal. Obverse: portrait of a man with a baton of command within a circumscription. Reverse: illuminated by a radiant ouroboros containing the letter C, Peace, depicted as a standing woman, holds an olive branch and two coats of arms tied together with a ribbon in her left hand and sets fire to a pile of weapons with a torch in her other hand; at her feet a cornucopia, in the background a view of the city of Aachen within a circumscription; exergue: inscription. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-2502; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 5.5 cm x weight 76.99 g. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- silver (metal)
- Technique
- striking (metalworking)
- Measurements
- diameter 5.5 cm x weight 76.99 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 5.5 cm x weight 76.99 g
Design
- Obverse
- portrait of a man with a baton of command within a circumscription.
- Reverse
- illuminated by a radiant ouroboros containing the letter C, Peace, depicted as a standing woman, holds an olive branch and two coats of arms tied together with a ribbon in her left hand and sets fire to a pile of weapons with a torch in her other hand; at her feet a cornucopia, in the background a view of the city of Aachen within a circumscription; exergue: inscription.
Identification
- Original title
- Penning over de Vrede te Aken en het eerste eeuwfeest van de vrede van Munster, ter ere van Willem IV
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-2502
- Museum classification
- medal
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
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