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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;WashQuartJesse, post: 3746495, member: 18323&quot;]Based on my findings, the token’s obverse is actually the saltire (X) skull and bones. Accounts seem to suggest Saint Lambert (Landebertus/Lambertus) was born sometime in the 7th century (633-638) and that he died right around the turn of this century. ANNIVERSARIUM, therefore, would most likely refer to the thousand year celebration of his birth or death/martyrdom… These coins may have already provided researchers/historians, or one day will, a more definitive date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am more inclined to believe the depicted skull and bones were more of a remembrance, acknowledgement, and/or literal appreciation of St. Lambert’s actual remains (the exhumation and transfer to Liege), than a general, “better be a good girl/boy before meeting your maker” type of thing. I feel that these were used during feasts as is commonly suggested, today. I don’t believe that these were strictly, or predominantly, used as a sort of passing/death token or whatever.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Royal Society of Numismatics (Belgium) was considering these tokens prior to the American Civil War. What an extraordinary group of numismatists, too!</p><p><br /></p><p>Their introduction to this “series” of tokens mentions something along the lines of (loosely translated)…</p><p><br /></p><p><i>In the second part of our numismatic research of Liège, we are disregarding all the pieces that did not have a public course or a legal value, and we established two divisions…</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The first includes medals, tokens and decorations…</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The second includes medals, tokens and decorations struck by chapters, corporations and/or families (in other words), all the pieces that relate to a special society…</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>We rely on the benevolent course of numismatists to complete the</i></p><p><i>first research…”</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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