Marriage Medal

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the custom among the well-to-do to give a medal to the guests on the occasion of family celebrations such as marriage, birth, baptism or birthday. The Monnaie de Paris had several occasional medals in stock, engraved by well-known French medallists, from which to choose. This wedding medal, designed by Louis Bottée…

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the custom among the well-to-do to give a medal to the guests on the occasion of family celebrations such as marriage, birth, baptism or birthday. The Monnaie de Paris had several occasional medals in stock, engraved by well-known French medallists, from which to choose. This wedding medal, designed by Louis Bottée, shows the inauguration of the marriage on the obverse and a blank cartouche on the reverse on which a custom text could be engraved.