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Wedding medal
| Location | Denmark |
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| Year | 1696 |
| Type | Personality medal |
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| Obverse description | Finely detailed high-relief scene depicting the Marriage at Cana (John II), showing Christ and the Virgin Mary seated at a banquet table surrounded by numerous guests and servants bearing food and drink. In the lower foreground, a large ornamental vase inscribed IOHAN II is prominently displayed alongside a servant crouching over large water jars. The legend HOC · PRAESIDE · NIHIL · DEEST arches across the upper field, with the engraver's signature ANTON·MEIBUSCH / FEC·A·PARIS· / 1687 in the lower exergue. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | High-relief scene depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, both shown nude; Eve stands gesturing toward rays of divine light descending from the upper left, while Adam reclines beside her beneath a fruit-laden tree at right. In the left middle ground, two horses and two dogs are depicted among the landscape. The legend UT · SIT · CONCORDIA · MAIOR arches around the upper field, with GENESIS · II in the lower exergue, and the engraver's signature and date in the lower field. |
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