French Calendar Medal for 1878, Marked Cercles Catholiques d’Ouvriers
date: label: date made
content: ca 1878
label: Associated Date
content: 1878
notes: label: Description
content: Inscribed on one side of this metal disc is a table listing the dates on which Sundays fall for the months in the year 1878. For example, the first column is headed SEP (/) DEC and the dates given in the column are 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. An inscription above the table reads: CALENDRIER (/) POUR 1878. The table is entitled: DIMANCHES DE L’ANNÉE. The dates of various religious festivals are listed around the edge.
label: Description
content: The other side has a table listing for each month, the number of days in it, the date (or dates) of new moon, and the date of full moon. An inscription atop the table reads: CERCLES CATHOLIQUES (/) D’OUVRIERS (/) HAVRE. Below the table is a listing of the dates of equinoxes and solstices. On the left side are given the golden number of the year (17) and the epact (XXVI). On the right side the dominical letter is listed as F and the Roman indiction 6.
label: Description
content: The object came to the Smithsonian from the collection of Henry Russell Wray.
label: Description
content: The Cercles Catholiques d’Ouvriers were organizations of French workers – funded largely by more prosperous entities – who sought to encourage religious practice among French workers from the 1870s into the early 1930s.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Compare medals MA.316918.1 and MA.318918.2 to calendar medals with the numbers and 1901,1115.3 (Ackermann number 41) and 1958,1006.3062 (Ackermann number 42) in the British Museum. These are particularly similar to MA.316918.2. Full descriptions of the medals at the British Museum, and much related information, appear in Silke Ackermann, “Maths and Memory: Calendar Medals in the British Museum Part I,” <I>The Medal</I>, Autumn, 2004, vol. 45, esp. pp. 30-31.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Normandie, Le Havre
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Calendar
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.316918.1
label: catalog number
content: 316918.1
label: accession number
content: 228694
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calendar medal
label: Object Name
content: calendar token
label: Object Name
content: calendar coin
label: Object Name
content: calendar disc
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 1/32 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in