SWITZERLAND bronze religious medal 1881
$165.00
SWITZERLAND, religious medal, 1881, Obverse: bust 1/4 L, CONGREGATIO BEATE MARIAE VIRGINIS AB ANGELO SALUTATE * B.P. CANISIUS * 1581 COL.S.MICH.FRIB.HELV. 1881 *, Reverse: Annunciation scene, AVE MARIA in exergue, H. BOVY, brazed loop at top, bronze, 45mm, 40.2g, very high relief, nice chocolate color, edge bumps, XF
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Description
St. Peter Canisius laid the foundation stone of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin in Fribourg in 1581. The medal was probably privately struck in France.
Medals, awards, decoration, insignia, documents, equipment, of military, police, private, and irregular military style organizations. We sometimes sell small weapons but we do not sell working firearms. If a thing happens to be military but is hundreds of years old I stop thinking of it as a military thing and start thinking of it as a relic or an antiquity. I suppose that means that “militaria” really starts around the middle of the 19th century or so, when uniforms became normal. Does that seem right to you?
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
