Options
Wilhelmina Powerful and Defiant
harasha
Posts: 3,079 ✭✭✭✭✭
I am assembling photos of my Wilhelmina collection. Never translated the obverse legend till now. And wow. Consider the times. Consider the obverse legend. Then consider the image on the reverse. Maybe much more than a 40th Anniversary medal!
Obv: My shield and reliance art Thou, o G-D, my Lord (from the Dutch national anthem)
Obv: My shield and reliance art Thou, o G-D, my Lord (from the Dutch national anthem)
Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis
DPOTD
DPOTD
0
Comments
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
I think that sword belongs to the dutch lion.
For some reason, the first thing I thought of when I saw that reverse was the cover of Toto's 1978 debut album.
Aethelred and I had (well, still have) a friend who was/is a huge Toto fan.
(Did you know that was Tim's favorite band, Michael? And he was a music major, so I guess that's something.)
I liked 'em OK in the '80s. They were a pretty good group.
But I digress.
PS- while blathering on about Toto, I forgot to say "nice medal", which of course it is.
PPS- to continue blathering on, here's the big hit off that Toto album.
The title "Hold the Line" (though not the lyrics) sort of fits the theme of the medal and that period in history, don't you think?
DPOTD
Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you.
Love that song, though I'm not quite sure why. Maybe because I used to live in Africa.
Taler Custom Set
Ancient Custom Set
Did you live in South Africa , Rob
No, though I spent about two weeks there. We ended up in Tanzania for a year.
Z- that sure is a minimalistic design, but it works, somehow (Just as does harasha's medal in the OP). I like the gentle waves on the water. It's very melancholy and appropriate to a memorial of a loss at sea. I was unfamiliar with the type, and like it very much. The late, great Newbiecollector would've approved, and might've liked something like that for his ship-themed collection.