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Savannah Benevolent Association Good Samaritan Medal
Engraved by: Rudolph Laubenheimer (American (born Germany), 1833–1905)
1876
Medium/Technique
Copper
Dimensions
Diameter and weight: 34 mm, 21.38 gm (1 5/16 in., 0.75 oz.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry H. Fay
Accession Number13.775
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsNumismatics – Medals
DescriptionObverse: I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME / MATT. XXV. XXXVI. around a depiction of a good Samaritan attending to a person on the ground, a donkey is at left and a palm tree at right; signed R. LAUBENHEIMER in the exergue. The whole surrounded by a decorative border.
Reverse: SAVANNA BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION / PRESENTED TO / around a first-aid cross with 1876 at the center. The inscription field below is blank. The whole surrounded by a decorative border.
Edge: plain
Reverse: SAVANNA BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION / PRESENTED TO / around a first-aid cross with 1876 at the center. The inscription field below is blank. The whole surrounded by a decorative border.
Edge: plain