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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1783623, member: 39&quot;]Well, the inscription says <i>Robert Ball · Münzen-Handlung · Berlin</i> (on the medal, the U-umlaut is written as an U-E combination). And <i>numquam dormio</i> is Latin and means something like <i>I never sleep</i>. Guess that is meant in the sense of always being alert - with those coin cases I would be on alert too. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The book that the woman has in her lap shows some text, as does the one next to her feet, on the right. And while the large images show lots of details, I cannot really decipher the text ... Could be &quot;numus&quot; (referring to coins?) and &quot;madal&quot; (referring to medals?), but I am not sure.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ball was a coin dealer in Berlin, as the inscription says. Later, in the 1930s, the name of the company was Robert Ball Nachf., i.e. successor(s).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>Edit -</i> Here is a similar medal, apparently from 1900, with a different inscription around the woman though: <a href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/mueller/item.php5?id=12512" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/mueller/item.php5?id=12512" rel="nofollow">http://www.muenzauktion.com/mueller/item.php5?id=12512</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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