Election of Bernardus Blok as secretary of the delegated councillors in West Friesland and the Northern Quarter, medal struck by order of the Patriotic Society in Enkhuizen
Also known as: Verkiezing van Bernardus Blok tot secretaris van de gecommitteerde raden in West-Friesland en het Noorderkwartier, penning geslagen op last van het Patriottisch Genootschap te Enkhuizen
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1785
Silver medal. Obverse: Liberty, depicted as a Roman soldier, pierces with a lance a two-headed hydra, one head of which wears a crown and the other holds a torn parchment in its maw; with the other hand the soldier rests on a parchment with a seal, which lies on the pedestal, decorated with a cap of liberty, of a column decorated with eight coats of arms within legend; exergue: inscription.
Reverse: inscription below a coat of arms illuminated by a radiant all-seeing eye amid palm and myrtle branches. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-2898; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 4.5 cm x weight 28.1 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 4.5 cm x weight 28.1 g
- Dimensions museum
- diameter 4.5 cm x weight 28.1 g
Design
- Obverse
- Liberty, depicted as a Roman soldier, pierces with a lance a two-headed hydra, one head of which wears a crown and the other holds a torn parchment in its maw; with the other hand the soldier rests on a parchment with a seal, which lies on the pedestal, decorated with a cap of liberty, of a column decorated with eight coats of arms within legend; exergue: inscription.
- Reverse
- inscription below a coat of arms illuminated by a radiant all-seeing eye amid palm and myrtle branches.
Identification
- Original title
- Verkiezing van Bernardus Blok tot secretaris van de gecommitteerde raden in West-Friesland en het Noorderkwartier, penning geslagen op last van het Patriottisch Genootschap te Enkhuizen
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- NG-VG-1-2898
- Museum classification
- history 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.
Research required
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