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Reward Medal for Schoolchildren (?) 1751
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Reward Medal for Schoolchildren (?) 1751

1741 · striking (metalworking); silver (metal)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Small silver medal. Obverse: Wisdom with a pruning knife and raised finger, with a winged boy leaning on the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, with a book inscribed PA/V. EP/H. 6:, in a landscape with a radiant sky, with legend and field text. Reverse: Apollo with a goose feather and cornucopia amidst symbols of art and science and a blooming tree, with legend; in the field the incomplete year 174 modified and completed with type stamps to 1751.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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history medal
Credit lineBeloningspenning voor scholieren (?) 1751. 1741. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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