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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1636330, member: 39"]A Portuguese medal, it seems. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  "Dia da Mãe", above the woman with the child, means "Mother's Day", and the signature "Cabral Antunes" suggests that it was designed by José Maria Cabral Antunes (1916–1986). The poem on the other side, "Minha Mãe" ("My Mother"), was apparently written by an author named A. S. Freitas. Hmm, here is a Portuguese Wikipedia page about António Sousa Freitas (1921-2004) <a href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Sousa_Freitas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Sousa_Freitas" rel="nofollow">http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_Sousa_Freitas</a> which even mentions that the two worked together ("Em 1969, fundou o Gabinete Português de Medalhística, onde trabalhou com o escultor Cabral Antunes"), but does the "signature" on that side actually say Sousa? Looks like "Simsa" or so to me ... Christian[/QUOTE]