Netherlands Medal 1838 Introduction of the new Dutch legal codes - Variety(?) EF

Netherlands. Willem I. Medal commemorating the introduction of the new Dutch legal codes, dated 1838. By Johannis Petrus Schouberg.

Obverse: head of King Willem I facing left. Legend: WILHELMVS · I · BELGII · REX · LVXEMB · MAGN · DVX. Signed below: J. P. SCHOUBERG F.

Reverse: Justice standing with sword and scales, beside the crowned Netherlands lion holding a bundle of arrows and resting a paw against a tablet inscribed LEGVM / CODEX / NEERLAND. Legend: TVEBVNTVR ET SERVABVNT. In the exergue: SANCITVS ET PROMVLGATVS / Aº MDCCCXXXVIII.

The design commemorates the introduction of the new Dutch legislation on 1 October 1838. Justice, the national lion and the legal tablet combine to express the protection and maintenance of the law.

Possibly a later striking. The date of manufacture of this example has not been established. Dies for this medal were recorded in the Dutch Mint’s die collection in Besier’s catalogue of 1883, no. 164.

A corresponding example is preserved in the Rijksmuseum, inventory number KOG-MP-2-0159.

Reference: Dirks 539.

Weight: 120 g. Diameter: 64 mm.

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