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Surgeons' Guild of Amsterdam, Access Medal for the Hortus Medicus
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Brass medal. Obverse: Death, depicted as a skeleton, in a field of flowers with a scythe in the right hand and with the left hand on an hourglass standing on a pedestal. Reverse: vase with flowers between the year; on the vase: coat of arms above a cartouche within a border.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineChirurgijnsgilde te Amsterdam, toegangspenning voor de hortus medicus. 1684. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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