Friday 12 June 2020

Easy as ABC....

The theme for this month's virtual meeting is coins and learning or education.

This includes commemorative medallions featuring universities and colleges and also school attendance medals.

I also found a jeton which has a maths teacher on it! it is in fact a reckoning piece showing a man keeping his accounts on a chequerboard and on the other side the alphabet. these jetons are found in different languages but started n Germany in the Sixteenth Century. I found an image of one where the die maker had got the wrong letter in- I overstruck on O. they all seem to have only I for I and J and V for U and V.



These are two South African university medallions