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cacheman · May 20, 2013 10:06AM

Cast Bronze, 36.75mm, 13.30g.

I don't have a clue on this one. Thanks in advance.

harasha · May 20, 2013 10:50AM

Obv: Behold your mother; behold your son

Rev: Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem
Christ is made for us, obedient even unto death.

Looks like some baroque religious token.

MacCrimmon · May 20, 2013 10:55AM

The obverse depiction is of Christ and his mother, Mary Magdalen and Mary of Cleophas.

The legend from John 19: 26-27, "ecce mater tua eco filius . t (ua)

"Women, behold thy son … Behold thy mother."

I can't make out the Latin inscription on the reverse, other than to guess it applies to the Judgment Day, and/or that Christ was tried in the fires of Hell, and found blameless.

The inscription over the cross on the obverse, "INRI", is "Iēsus Nazarēnus, Rēx Iūdaeōrum", Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews.

Iosephus · May 20, 2013 12:21PM

It's a Venetian medal; harasha nailed the inscriptions. The two obvese characters next to Christ on the cross are Mary, the mother of Jesus, and St. John the Evangelist (technically, he should probably be identified as "the disciple whom Jesus loved", since it is never explicitly stated who the beloved disciple is, though tradition holds that it is John the Apostle). I believe the struck originals are attributed to the 16th century.

daOnlyBG · May 21, 2013 7:19AM

From what year/era do you think it was minted?

cacheman · May 21, 2013 9:11AM

From what I'm picking up from others is that this is a cast copy made from the same idea as the original struck pieces of the 15th-16th C.. Like anything copied, it ain't worth much.

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