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Bill Calvert provides the following about
the medal below: the words on it are "Medio Lanum".
Mediolanum is the Latin name for ancient Milan. The
image on the front is St. Ambrose, Governor of the
province including Milan, and later Bishop of Milan.
Both the image and the writing on the front of the
medal are taken from a coin called the Ambrosino, a
gold or silver coin, struck at Milan during the
first republic (1250-1310), which bears the figure
of St. Ambrose, patron saint of the city.
The images on either side of the Ambrose figure may represent bees buzzing over a hive. Bees are often included with St. Ambrose images, because of a legend that his father found his infant son's face covered with bees. This was taken as a sign of his future eloquence, or speaking with a "honeyed tongue." So maybe a sales award?
The other side of the medal, in Italian, reads:
"Upjohn manufacturers
of specialty
medicines since
1886".
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Supposedly the one below was for Project Mercury. Is that familiar to anyone? |
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