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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wehwalt, post: 2481056, member: 33595&quot;]I would think it was costly.&nbsp; It is very heavy.&nbsp; I do admire that the banker on the obverse has not put the bag of gold on the scales just yet, meaning they are tilted because of the weights on the other pan, which helps keep the design within the circle!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also very heavy is this one[ATTACH=full]523751[/ATTACH]&nbsp; bought in Barcelona. </p><p>Luís de Camões is basically Portugal&#039;s Shakespeare. This is a huge medal, about 80mm, and the point of his swimming on the medal is that the manuscript of Os Lusíadas, his most famous work, was saved when he was shipwrecked off the coast of Cambodia because he kept it out of the water. That is his tomb on the medal. The 400th anniversary of his death (1580 to 1980) Note that the square portion of the medal is meant to be a book, one side the outside, one side the inside (even with bookmark!)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]523750[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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