Professed members also wear a medal depicting a cross and a lamb.

"I'm lucky to be alive, and for all my friends then that weren't so lucky, this is by tribute to them," he said after the ceremony, fingering the medal depicting an eagle surrounded by barbed wire and hung from a red, white and black ribbon.

Bosbyshell informed Leech by letter that Stewart Cullin, curator at the University of Pennsylvania, possessed a number of medals depicting Isabella, and former general Oliver O. Howard was engaged in writing a biography of the late queen and possessed likenesses of her.

Religious medals depicting Sts Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves would often have a depiction of St Barbara on the other side.

Inside this small sphere was a medal depicting the Earth-to-Venus flight path.

There was no specially designed medal in 1954; instead, the assay commissioners, who met in Philadelphia on Lincoln's Birthday, February 12, 1954, chose to receive the Mint's standard presidential medal depicting Abraham Lincoln, with the commissioner's name on the edge.

More recent acquisitions include letters from Browning and Longfellow, a passage from the Koran in Coptic, and a set of German medals depicting the heads of British monarchs.

Most workers received a medal depicting a bunker for their service.

It is a rosary consisting of a ring of seven groups of seven beads separated by a small medal depicting one of the sorrows of Mary, or a single bead.

The prize includes a monetary award, a medal depicting Pegasus, and translation into English and subsequent publication of the work by Louisiana State University Press.