While school hasn’t begun everywhere (like where I grew up, with school beginning right after Labor Day), it is beginning here and at some colleges, so this upload features a few references that may remind you of your time in school, and especially physics and chemistry class, like this Alfred Nobel commemorative medal from the Paris mint…

Designed by Léo Holmgren, the successor to Erik Lindberg at the Swedish mint, this medal displays the five areas part of the Nobel canon: peace, literature, chemistry, physics, and medicine. For physics, a representation of the atom is featured.

That aspect is also conveyed on this silvered bronze medal from Czechoslovakia issued on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie…

One of the most important figures in science in the 20th century, Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, among many other achievements and accolades.

Lastly, there is this cast iron plaque from 1958 that features a number of academic subjects, with not as specific of an atom representation, but with definite nods to chemistry, among other things…

Moving on to some other topics, there is this exceptional architectural medal from Jacques Wiener featuring the Cologne Synagogue…

Viewed as one of the big three within Wiener’s massive architectural series, along with the Hagia Sophia and St. Isaac’s at St. Petersburg, this example is also important given its Judaica crossover appeal. Graded PCGS SP-63, it even features a legend on the reverse in Hebrew.

Another PCGS-graded medal, this stunning Italian award medal in bronze was issued in 1890, though undated…

Displaying the bust of King Umberto I on the obverse, it features an allegorical figure upon the reverse, with symbols of commerce, industry, and agriculture around her. Merely graded SP-63, it would appear to be somewhat conservatively assessed in my opinion.

Also featuring some extravagant vibrancy, there is this stunningly toned silver medal from 1914 at the outset of World War I…

Commemorating Kaiser Wilhelm’s speech from the throne, it displays some exceptional iridescence and, at PCGS SP-64, stands as the single-finest graded example of the type in their census.

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