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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stldanceartist, post: 3625550, member: 13307&quot;]Good evening!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had this piece for a while now, sitting in a bin with some other interesting stuff - just getting around to poking through it and would like to find out more about it (if anyone here can add some useful information.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]972187[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s what I know:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Diameter:</b> 76mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 80g</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Ville de Chimay</p><p><br /></p><p>Chimay is a Walloon municipality in the Belgian province of Hainaut (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimay" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimay" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Concours general de l&#039;enseignement du degré supérieur / <a href="http://www.archimay.be" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.archimay.be" rel="nofollow">Athénée Royale de Chimay</a> / Botte Edgard (<i>assuming this is the name of the student</i>) / de manage élevé de 4ieme (<i>4th, or quatrième</i>) laline (<i>or is this latin?</i>) 2e (<i>second, or deuxième</i>) mention honorable en français</p><p><br /></p><p>So, from what my high school french tells me, this is a secondary school award (for someone named Edgard Botte) in either French or Latin?</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone tell me a general time period this medal would have been awarded, or anything more about my translation?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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