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Médaille - Des grands hommes de la Belgique Rembert Dodoens

Features

Location Belgium
Type Commemorative medals › Personality medals
Years 1848-1850
Composition Bronze
Weight 42.1 g
Diameter 46.4 mm
Thickness 4.5 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
310198
References Storer MiN# 849
Horatio Robinson Storer, Malcolm Storer (ed.); 1931. Medicina in nummis: A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Self-published, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Series: Great Men of Belgium

Obverse

The upright bust of physician and botanist Rembert DodoensAutomatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
R. DODOENS DE MALINES
1518 - 1585.
JOUVENEL

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Reverse

In the upper field, engravings of five books, a vase filled with flowers and a snake symbolizing medicine.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
FLORUM HISTORIÆ
STIRP. HIST.
LA BELGIQUE
OÙ L’ON AIME TANT LES FLEURS,
S’HONORE D’AVOIR VU NAÎTRE
DODONAEUS QUI FIT FAIRE A LA
BOTANIQUE SES PREMIERS PROGRÈS.
1554, IL PUBLIE SON HERBIER A ANVERS.
1568, IL REFUSE LA PLACE DE MÉDECIN
DE LA COUR A MADRID. 1574, IL ACCEPTE
CELLE DE MÉDECIN DE MAXIMILIEN II
ET SE REND À VIENNE. 1580, IL
REVIENT DANS SA PATRIE ALORS
DÉSOLÉE PAR LA GUERRE ET
BIENTÔT IL VA PROFESSER
LA MÉDECINE À LEYDE
OÙ IL MEURT EN
1585.

Engraver: Adolphe Jouvenel

Edge

Plain

Comments

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish botanist and physician born in 1518 in Mechelen and died in 1585 in Leiden.
He was the author of a famous work on medicinal plants, a Flemish edition entitled "Cruydeboeck", published in 1554 and translated into French three years later by Charles de l'Ecluse under the title "Histoire des plantes".
From 1848 to 1850, Adolphe-Christian Jouvenel engraved and published in Brussels a collection of 25 bronze medals in 45 mm modules, depicting portraits of "The great men of Belgium". At the time, each medal was sold for 4 Belgian francs.
34 mm bronze or brass tokens reproducing some of these medals were also engraved to, according to the prospectus of the time, bring this publication within everyone's reach, with a more democratic selling price of 50 centimes.Automatically translated

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ND (1848-1850)  Photo $ 38

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold Médaille - Des grands hommes de la Belgique (Rembert Dodoens)
Katz
Auction 186
Lot 25
Internet Archive
13 Mar 2026 AU USD 38.03
(EUR 33.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Médaille - Des grands hommes de la Belgique (Rembert Dodoens)
Katz
Auction 169
Lot 182
Internet Archive
20 Sep 2025 AU USD 39.18
(EUR 34.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Médaille - Des grands hommes de la Belgique (Rembert Dodoens)
Katz
Auction 154
Lot 330
Internet Archive
12 Apr 2025 AU USD 28.81
(EUR 25.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold Médaille - Des grands hommes de la Belgique (Rembert Dodoens)
Katz
Auction 136
Lot 1114
Internet Archive
28 Aug 2024 AU USD 41.48
(EUR 36.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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