PORTUGAL 1850s Silver Prize Award Medal of Pharmacy or Medicine School of Mafra. XF (bag-marks!)

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1850s, Portugal. Silver Prize Award Medal of Pharmacy or Medicine School of Mafra.

Medallist: Not signed.
Mint Year: ca. 1850 (not dated)
Condition: Bag-marks, nicely toned, otherwise XF!
Denomination: Award Medal for - Pharmacy or Medicine School of Mafra.
Material: Silver
Weight: 32,32gm
Diameter: 41mm


Obverse: Winged cherub floating in front of cloud, holding wreath and banner (with latin inscription) in right hand and palm-branch in left.
Legend: VICTORI ("Victory.")

Reverse: Wreathed symbol of Medicine and Pharmacy (caduceus entwined by snakes).
Legend: * HAEC JUIVENTUM DOCTO MAFRAE CERTAMINE PARTA ("This young man has won the Mafra competition.")



The Great Retreat was a strategic withdrawal and evacuation on the Eastern Front of World War I in 1915. The Imperial Russian Army gave up the salient in Galicia and the Polish Congress Kingdom. The Russian Empire's critically under-equipped military suffered great losses in the Central Powers' July–September summer offensive operations, which led to the Stavka ordering a withdrawal to shorten the front lines and avoid the potential encirclement of large Russian forces in the salient. While the withdrawal itself was relatively well-conducted, it was a severe blow to Russian morale.

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