Around central portrait, JOHN·M· FARLEY / ⁕ ABP. ⁕; around outside, ✠·CARD·ABP· McCLOSKEY· ✠·ABP·M ·CORRIGAN· ✠ ·ABP·J· HVGHES· ✠ / ·B P ·J·DVBOIS· ✠·BP ·CONCANEN ·O·P· ✠·BP·CONNOLLY·O·P·: Central portrait medallion of Archbishop John Farley, left, surrounded by portraits of his six predecessors as prelate of the Diocese of New York: Bishop Concanen, Bishop Connolly, Bishop Dubois, Archbishop Hughes, Cardinal McCloskey, and Archbishop Corrigan. Above, representing the Holy Trinity, is a dove with trefoil; below is a pectoral cross; at 4:00, signed J·E· ROINE; at 8:00, small ANS seal.
Reverse
CENTENARY · OF THE · ESTABLISHMENT OF · THE · DIOCESE OF · NEW · YORK / 1808 1908: Oblique view of St. Patrick's Cathedral from the west; on either side are representations of St. Peter's Church of 1808, in Barclay Street, and St. Patrick's Church of Mott Street, consecrated in 1815. At top are the arms of Pope Pius X; below are those of Pope Pius VII, who created the diocese in 1808; to the right are the arms of Archbishop Farley and to the left those of the diocese of New York.
Above, ⁕ IN ⁕ HONOR ⁕ OF ⁕ / ALGERNON ·SYDNEY·SULLIVAN / 1826 1887; below, (three flowers) /HE·REACHED·oUT·BoTH·HANDS·IN· CoNSTANT / ⁕ HELPFULNESS·To HIS·FELLoW· MEN ⁕: Bust of Algernon Sydney Sullivan, head left; at lower right, signed J·E·ROINÉ.
Reverse
AS·ONE·LAMP·LIGHTS· ANOTHER·NOR·GROWS·LESS / SO·NOBLENESS·ENKINDLETH·NOBLENESS: An older man reaching out to aid a youth, and with his flaming torch lighting the torch of the younger. Below is a quotation from James Russell Lowell; at lower right, signed J·E· ROINE.
1809 ABRAHAM ⁕ LINCOLN 1909: Full-length seated portrait of Lincoln at a table, signing the Emancipation Proclamation while Fame is crowning him. The seal of the Society is in the upper left corner; in upper right corner, signed J. E. ROINÉ SCP.
MARIE · JOSEPH · PAVL / YVES · ROCHE · GILBERT · DVMOTIER · / MARQVIS DE LAFAYETTE · / MAJOR·GENERAL·IN·THE·SERVICE·OF / THE· UNITED · STATES · OF · AMERICA / AND · NOBLEST · PATRIOT · OF THE / FRENCH · REVOLVTION: Bust l. in Garde nationale uniform wearing the Ordre royale et militaire de Saint-Louis but with- out the Médaille communale des Gardes-françaises for the conquerors of the Bastille; signed in lower right, J · E · ROINE
Reverse
AD · PERPETVAM · REI / MEMORIAM / MCMXI: Liberty advancing with sword, flags, eagle, 1776 on rising sun, 1789 in clouds; signed in lower right, J. E. ROINE.
