Medal of Axelius Oxenstierna of Sweden Artist: F. Salmson (c. 1818)
Patron: Amédée Durand, French

1821

Numismatics

By appointment, Pratt Study Room

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

38.68 g, 12:00, 41 mm

Credit Line

Transfer from the Yale University Library, Numismatic Collection, 2001, Gift of Irving Dillaye-Vann, B.A. 1897

Accession Number

2001.87.27978

Geography

Made in France

Culture

Swedish

Period

19th century

Classification

Numismatics

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Numismatics

Obverse Description

Obverse Description: AXELIUS OXENSTIERNA bust r. SALMSON F. beneath truncation

Reverse Description

Reverse Description: Legend: NATUS/ IN FANO / UPLANDIAE / AN. M. D. LXXXIII. / OBIIT / STOCKHOLMIAE / AN. M. DC. LIV. / SERIES NUMISMATICA / UNIVERSALIS VIRORUM ILLUSTRIUM. / M.DCCC.XXI. Along rim: DURAND EDIDIT
Provenance
Irving Dillaye-Van, to about 1938; Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., 1938–2001; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

medals

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