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Swiss Miss-tery

harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Can anyone tell me anything about this medal, struck by F. Muller in Basel? To what does it refer?



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  • clarkbar04clarkbar04 Posts: 5,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very bizzare - is that bird thing wearing pants?
    MS66 taste on an MS63 budget.
  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely. Appears to have the head and torso of a raptor, a double tail, upper limbs of some other monstrosity and lower limbs of a man. Wearing pants. You can never be too modest. At least in Switzerland.

    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I did some more online research and I think I have the answer.

    Carnival time in Basel; Basler Fasnacht. All sorts of mummery takes place.
    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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