EAST GERMANY, porcelain medal
$18.00
GERMANY, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, medal, no date (1969?), Obverse: head L, ERFINDER DES PORZELLANS 1682 – 1719 JOHANN FRIEDRICH BÖTTGER, Reverse: walled town, 1706 – 1707 GEFANGENER DER FESTUNG KÖNIGSTEIN, brown porcelain, 62mm, Unc
1 in stock
Description
The Meissen Porcelain factory made commemorative medals and tokens from the turn of the 20th century through the 1960s.
There are two kinds of things that are called “medals.” One is things that look like coins but don’t express a value. Sometimes those medals are considerably larger than most coins. The other kind of medal is a metal thing designed to be displayed on one’s chest, often a reward for something, often in a military context. If the medal is small enough it is sometimes called a “medallet.”
The word “exonumia” is used to describe all kinds of things that are “like” coins but are not coins.I wrote a blog post on that subject. Basic categories: 1. used like a coin but not issued by a national government, 2. looks like a coin but not made for spending, 3. other things that we are interested in.
