• Any idea on the history of this French medallion?
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While FP is in sleuth mode, I figured I'd ask about this. My dad gave me this medallion along with a bunch of foreign coins and neither of us really know what the history of this thing is. [B][URL="http://i44.tinypic.com/sp9aib.jpg"]Front[/URL][/B] and [B][URL="http://i41.tinypic.com/11lsv80.jpg"]back[/URL][/B]. Edit: [B][URL="http://i39.tinypic.com/2rot6dz.jpg"]Clearer image[/URL][/B]. The front (with the woman) reads: [quote]A François Gondrand Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur Hommage affectueux de son personnel Fevrier MDCCCIƆ[/quote]Rough internet translation: [quote]A François Gondrand Knight of Legion of Honour Tender homage of his personnel February MDCCCIƆ[/quote]Pardon any capitalization errors, but the text is all in small caps. The first line's "A" is above the name but below the woman's arm (all the text is in the bottom left). The woman appears to be walking and wearing a thin veil, and her arms are outstretched holding branches of some kind. I tried to figure what the date was, but the backwards C keeps throwing me off. In Roman numerals, sometimes printers would use "IƆ" to indicate "D", but they would also use "CIƆ" to indicate 1000. My knowledge of Roman numerals was limited to begin with, but without the "Ɔ", the date would read 1801. The back reads: [quote]A l'apotre de l'accord Franco Italien[/quote]Rough internet translation: [quote]At/in the apostle of the French-Italian accord/agreement[/quote]The text encircles a crest depicting two shields, one with the initials "RF" with the Italian fasces symbol between the letters and the other shield with a simple cross design. Note: I'm pretty sure this isn't an heirloom, I think my dad just picked it up somewhere.
Try a local museum
Maybe a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur]Légion d'honneur[/url] recipient?
[QUOTE=Kai-ryuu;20752600]Maybe a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9gion_d%27honneur"]Légion d'honneur[/URL] recipient?[/QUOTE] I looked up a list of recipients, but there was nobody by the name on this medallion. Maybe he's not credited because they don't know that he got one? :s Also, sorry for shitty picture quality - phone lol.
why not scan it? if you have a scanner, you'll get better results
Those are facepunch tokens. You find 5 and exchange them to garry for gold member.
[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;20752731]why not scan it? if you have a scanner, you'll get better results[/QUOTE] My printer/scanner is messed up, let me see if I can fix it real quick. [QUOTE=Optimistic;20752752]Those are facepunch tokens. You find 5 and exchange them to garry for gold member.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/rating/information.png[/IMG] [editline]asdlf[/editline] This is as good as it gets because the woman is outset pretty far from the level part of the medallion. [IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/2rot6dz.jpg[/IMG]
Damn that's pretty exciting. Who knows, it could be worth thousands. I wish my parents had cool old stuff to pass on...
[QUOTE=freighter014;20755448]Damn that's pretty exciting. Who knows, it could be worth thousands. I wish my parents had cool old stuff to pass on...[/QUOTE] Yeah hopefully it's actually worth something. :rolleyes: The name on this thing is the name shared by an author who wrote a biography in 1989. [IMG]http://www.scepterpublishers.org/product/pictures/6066.jpg[/IMG]
I doubt it would be worth much. I have a legit Roman denarii coin and it is worth $10 at most.
Never heard of this agreement ... That's quite interesting though.
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