fme_814307 - LOVE AND MARRIAGE Médaille de mariage, Couple antique
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Type : Médaille de mariage, Couple antique
Date: n.d.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver MONTAGNY Jean-Pierre (1789-1862)
Weight : 10,28 g.
Edge : lisse + pipe ARGENT
Puncheon : Pipe (1879 - 1880) ARGENT
Coments on the condition:
Médaille nettoyée, de l’usure sur les reliefs et des frottements dans les champs. Présence de quelques rayures
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Un couple d’époux, vêtus à l’antique, se serrent la main devant un autel orné d’une couronne et d’un flambeau, signé : MONTAGNY. F.; la plinthe ne rejoint pas les bords.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Couronne de fleurs.
Commentary
Médaille non décernée.
Medal not awarded
Medal not awarded
Historical background
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
It was customary in the past to give a treizain during the wedding mass. This treizain was blessed and signified entry into a community of property for the married couple. The treizain, which later became a medal or wedding token, was so called in honor of Jesus Christ and the twelve apostles. This practice continued until the first half of the 20th century. The reference work on the subject is the work of Jules Florange, Love and marriage in numismatics, Moulins, 1936 now replaced by that of Henri Térisse, La Numismatique du Mariage, Argenton-sur-Creuse 2008.
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