Historical Collection Catalogue

Obverse: wreath; lettering = PREMIO, AGRICULTURA.INDUSTRIA.ARTES. Reverse: female holding a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, cornucopia or the horn of plenty next to her, leaning against half column, with skeps in the background; lettering = REAL SOCIEDAD ECONOMICA, JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, FELICITAS PUBLICA (Engl: Public welfare). This is a medal from the Royal Economic Society of Jerez de la Frontera, a city in southern Spain. The medal features a female figure holding a staff with snakes wrapped around it, which is the Rod of Asclepius, a symbol associated with medicine and healing.