Live auction - fme_1086882 - LOVE AND MARRIAGE Médaille de mariage, Évangile de St Mathieu
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Live starting : Type : Médaille de mariage, Évangile de St Mathieu
Date: 1852
Metal : copper
Diameter : 38,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Engraver PETIT Louis-Michel (1791-1844)
Weight : 32,59 g.
Edge : lisse
Puncheon : sans poinçon
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Patine hétérogène avec des traces d’usure, rayures et quelques coups. Présence de taches d’oxydation. Coups et rayures sur la tranche également
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : QUE L’HOMME DONC NE SEPARE / PAS CE QUE DIEU A UNI // S. MATHIEU CHAP. XIX.
Obverse description : Les mariés agenouillés, vêtus à l’antique, face à face, se tenant la main droite, l’époux à gauche, l’épouse à droite. L’homme lève la main gauche pour prêter serment sur le livre ouvert qui est appuyé sur la croix de l’autel situé en arrière plan, signé : PETIT F. à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : J S / 10 MARS / 1852.
Reverse description : Couronne de rose aérée et un monogramme couronné à l’intérieur.
Commentary
Médaille décernée au monogramme du couple : JS.
Medal awarded with the couple's monogram: JS
Medal awarded with the couple's monogram: JS
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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