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The medals of the masonic fraternity
described and Illustrated
by William T.R. Marvin
Boston, 1880
XIX. Medal struck to commemorate the establishment of Mars Lodge, at Jassy, Moldavia, in 1774, by Baron Von Gartenburg Sadogusky, then Commissioner General of the Imperial Russian Army. Obverse, Mars reclining on clouds, and wearing a plumed helmet ; his head turned to the right; his left hand extended, holds a wreath of laurel; his right, a ‘mound;’ beside him are various Masonic working tools, a square, gavel, trowel, and compasses, with a skull and bones resting on a closed book ; below is a landscape with rivers. Legend, virtute et sapientia. (By valor and wisdom.) In exergue, f. comstadius f.-. sadogura. [Figure 16.] Reverse, Within a wreath of oak leaves, dJ moldav calculum album adiecerunt maiores, 5 •^•4- in five lines. (The leaders have added, a white stone, the Moldavian 24 MASONIC MEDALS. Lodge 5744. ” Majores ” perhaps alludes to the Russian Generals, who united in forming this Lodge.) The master of the. mint where the dies were prepared was F. Comstadius; the engraver, Stockman. Silver. Size 32.
weight: 64,2 gr
diameter: 53 mm
