EXCELSIOR: New York State Arms, divided per pale, dexter U.S. flag with thirteen stars; sinister landscape with mountains and rising sun above peaks. Scroll below bears motto EXCELSIOR. Crest, eagle on demi-globe.
Reverse
PRESENTED _______ N.Y.S.V. BY/ REUBEN E. FENTON,/ GOVERNOR,/ In Pursuance of Concurrent Resolutions,/ PASSED BY THE/ SENATE AND ASSEMBLY/ OF THE/ STATE OF NEW YORK,/ AS A/ MEMENTO OF THE COURAGE/ OF HER/ SOLDIERS AND SAILORS./ "The benediction of the covering heavens/ Fall on your heads, like dew.": Uninscribed scroll for recipient's name.
Weight (in gr.)
400.759
Reference
Julian MI-31; The Military Awards of the Empire State, Till, Paul H , p.19-21, 1989
liia / mra / al-sultan al-mu`azzam / Ghiyath al-Dunya wa'l-Din / Muhammad b. Malikshah: in pendant tressels
Reverse
`adl / Allah la ilah illa huwa / al-hayy al-qiyam ... / al-Mustazhir billah / al-malik al-mu`tazz[?] `Adud / al-Dawla Sanjar b. Malik / Shah: in double circle
Circles. THE.BRITISH.GLORY.REVIV.D.BY.ADMIRAL.VERNON: full figure facing r.; baton in l. hand, sword in r.; ship to l., cannon to r.
Reverse
HE.TOOK.PORTO.BELLO.WITH.SIX.SHIPS.ONLY|NOV.22.1739: ships 2 over 4, all facing l.; steeple at TH; water lines at exergue line, Allegedly at bottom edge of upper half of words I ROCHE DUBLIN FECIT. (So it says...)
Bishop-Elliott American "Society Medals, an Identification Guide," appendix Societies known or strongly believed my the authors to have (or have had) a wearable insignia... page 282.
.... KOSOBOHuguenin Fec in tiny letters at 4 o'clock from the hub of the cannon wheel: two-word Serbian inscription in margin above; rayed sun with 1912 in center; below, artillery piece and ammunition wagon; marginal wreath
Reverse
battle name inscribed in each leaf of the wreath: arms of the kingdom in wreath