FRANCE
LOVE AND MARRIAGE 25th YEARS
Médaille de mariage, Souvenir
Date: 1886
Metal : silver
Diameter : 34,3 mm
Weight : 17,62 g.
Terisse-2730G
Obverse: Obverse legend : VOS. CUM. PROLE.
PIA. BENEDICAT. OMNIPOTENS. DEUS // À L’EXERGUE : SOUVENIR.
Obverse description : Blessing scene, a priest blesses a couple, church interior
in the background.
Reverse : Reverse legend : MP EB / 25 YEARS / 1886.
Reverse description : Inscription in 3 lines in a medallion, stylized decoration
all around.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE
It was customary in the past to give a treizain during the wedding mass.
This treizain was blessed and signified
entry into a community of property for the married couple. The treizain, which
later became a medal or wedding token, was so called in honor of Jesus Christ
and the twelve apostles. This practice continued until the first half of the
20th century. The reference work on the subject is the work of Jules Florange,
Love and marriage in numismatics, Moulins, 1936 now replaced by that of Henri
Térisse, La Numismatique du Mariage, Argenton-sur-Creuse 2008.
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