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Collegium Medicum in Amsterdam, admission medal for the hortus medicus of J. Steenmeyer
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Copper medal. Obverse: Aesculapius leaning with his right hand on a staff with a snake and with his left hand under his mantle, standing between two vases with plants on a pedestal; in the background a wall of a building within an inscription. Reverse: crowned coat of arms between two cornucopias filled with abundance above an ointment spatula, around which a snake coils, lying on a pedestal with an inscription within an inscription.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineCollegium Medicum te Amsterdam, toegangspenning voor de hortus medicus van J. Steenmeyer. 1803. Willem de Wijs. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.