Religious medallion?

Bryanhashemi · Apr 6, 2013

Found this today. Looks like a pope in the middle. Any ideas of age? Found on a 1890's homesite which was part of a row of mansions that held ww1 officers.

coinsareawesome · Apr 6, 2013

The front of that looks like Jesus. I have seen a coin with the same picture on it from the 600s.

bigfoot1 · Apr 6, 2013

I believe it may be a miraculous medal.Thousands of versions out there and still popular today.just a guess.As it appears plated I would guess last 150 yrs.

Coinsareawsome,where and how did you find an example from 600(ad I asume)?

DoranHashemi · Apr 6, 2013

Any other thoughts? Think its a saint

bigfoot1 · Apr 6, 2013

best I can manage with what I can see.nice find tho :icon_thumright:

Breezie · Apr 6, 2013

I think the figure is a Pope because he is wearing the Papal Crown. The Papal Crown was worn by Popes from the 8th century to the 20th century. The last Pope to wear it was Pope Paul VI. His death was in 1978, so your metal was probably made before 1978.

Neat find

Breezie

DoranHashemi · Apr 7, 2013

Thanks all!

sagittarius98 · Jul 10, 2013

Pope Leo could certainly fit as the pope on that medal, and he was Pope from 1878 to 1903.

capt-zero · Jul 10, 2013

I don't see a papal crown, Looks like a woman wearing a shawl. Hundreds of apparition medals. I will say it is definitely no a miraculous medal.

Breezie · Jul 10, 2013

capt-zero said:
I don't see a papal crown, Looks like a woman wearing a shawl. Hundreds of apparition medals. I will say it is definitely no a miraculous medal.

CZ, I've done a rendering of what I see.

HutSiteDigger · Jul 10, 2013

I may be looking at it wrong but too me it looks like the Virgin Mary

yaxthri · Jul 12, 2013

On this one I have to go with crowned Virgin Mary, too.
Lots of crowned Madonnas and Marys if you google it...

mical66 · Jul 12, 2013

here is a token medal with almost the exact picture breezie drew .

still looking to see if they made a necklace or charm of the same one but if they did this token medal why not a necklace ?

sorry forgot to add who it was ,
Catholic Pope Joannes Paulus

mical66 · Jul 12, 2013

weird,, that is not pope john paul on the token but that is how it is listed and i can not find who it is .

Bigcypresshunter · Jul 12, 2013

Is it gold anodized Aluminum?

sagittarius98 · Jul 12, 2013

mical66 said:
weird,, that is not pope john paul on the token but that is how it is listed and i can not find who it is .

Since it is in Cyrillic, it is probably an Orthodox leader, not a Roman Catholic pope.

Bigcypresshunter · Jul 13, 2013

Bryanhashemi said:
Any ideas of age?

One of the most important piece of information that you need to tell us to determine the age is the type of metal.

yaxthri · Jul 16, 2013

mical66 said:
weird,, that is not pope john paul on the token but that is how it is listed and i can not find who it is .

Can you post the source of this image?

mical66 · Jul 16, 2013

sure yaxthri , i did a google search on catholic pope medals and tokens, i typed it many different ways and i finally seen that medal , it was sold on ebay and they did not know the history of it , here is the ebay link . you can read the sellers description and look at the other pictures .
Vintage 925 Silver Religious Catholic Pope Joannes Paulus Token Medal Coin | eBay

mical66 · Jul 16, 2013

using this token i seen on ebay i found limited info on the maker , Stefano Johnson of Milano , looks like he lived from 1813-1882 and started his company in the 1830's.
so much of this information on him and his company is not in english so i can not follow up on it .
i am not saying this guy made this medal, just showing there were medals being made in the past with the pope on it . it could be a virgin mary on the token found here , but i see a crown the same as breezie .