MEDAL FRANCE 1886 LOVE AND MARRIAGE SILVER 25th YEARS 34.3mm Terisse-2730G (967)

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LOVE AND MARRIAGE 25th YEARS



Médaille de mariage, Souvenir



Date: 1886



Diameter : 34,3 mm; Weight : 17,62 g.



Terisse-2730G



Obverse: Obverse legend : VOS. CUM. PROLE.

PIA. BENEDICAT. OMNIPOTENS. DEUS // À L’EXERGUE : SOUVENIR.



Obverse description : Blessing scene, a priest blesses a couple, church interior

in the background.



Reverse : Reverse legend : MP EB / 25 YEARS / 1886.



Reverse description : Inscription in 3 lines in a medallion, stylized decoration

all around.

LOVE AND MARRIAGE



It was customary in the past to give a treizain during the wedding mass.

This treizain was blessed and signified

entry into a community of property for the married couple. The treizain, which

later became a medal or wedding token, was so called in honor of Jesus Christ

and the twelve apostles. This practice continued until the first half of the

20th century. The reference work on the subject is the work of Jules Florange,

Love and marriage in numismatics, Moulins, 1936 now replaced by that of Henri

Térisse, La Numismatique du Mariage, Argenton-sur-Creuse 2008.





REF 23 967










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