Help with a Medal

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  1. Savoyspecial

    Savoyspecial Member

    Looks to be white metal or pewter. Theme on both sides is Parthenon but my info stops there. Anyone ever seen a similar medal?

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  3. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Edited your post to embed the full sized images rather than thumbnails. (Look for that option when you're posting).

    It's a really neat piece. I can't tell you anything you haven't already figured out, though apparently it has something to do with the Elgin Marbles (from the Parthenon, as you mentioned).

    "The Car of the Night" is an intriguing phrase. I wonder what it means?
     
  4. alurid

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  5. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Side note- that statue horse head looks spooky as all get-out! :nailbiting:

    Must be that empty eye socket...
     
  6. Dave M

    Dave M Francophiliac

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  7. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Cool. Thanks.

    Speaking of medals, and horses, and horses traveling the sky, here is Aurora in her cloud chariot, on a ca. 1740 French jeton I once had.

    Mythologically similar, I believe.

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  8. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    OK, so I gather the horse head seen on Greg's medal there belonged to the statuary from the Parthenon which depicted The Car of the Night.

    It is shown in a disembodied state on the medal because that was how it traveled to England? Perhaps it was (maybe still is) displayed that way in the British Museum?
     
  9. Dave M

    Dave M Francophiliac

    There are a whole pile of horses in the Elgin collection at the British Museum; I've been privileged to see them. This is a "loose" one on a pedestal, whereas most are in friezes. They all tend to look a bit like this, but I suppose it could be the same one as on the medal.

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  10. Stork

    Stork I deliver Supporter

    Looks left, looks right, looks behind. Whispers. Is that where the idea for the Godfather came from? Spooky is right.
     
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  11. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

    Oh, good. It's not just me, then. :p
     
  12. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    There is a phrase in French on the reverse of this medal "HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE" Meaning "Shame on him who thinks this evil" This is a Motto that is used by the British Order of the Garter. Here is a website that explain what this is.https://www.royal.uk/order-garter
     
  13. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    Upon Further research this seems to be one of a set of 48 medals that were minted around 1820. Each medal was made out of a white medal and depicted one of the Elgin Marbles. I found a set that sold on another website back in 2007 https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=104399

    Hope that helps ya out a little.
     
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