VOCABULARY TERM: TABLE MEDAL

Table Medal. A medal not intended to be worn, as is a decoration, pin or badge, and therefore "lie on the table." Table medals, obviously, do not have loops for suspension or any device for attaching to a garment. By extension a table medal could be any medal, awarded or not, that has no suspension and cannot be worn (this could include many kinds of medals - historical, commemorative, commercial, even art medals - so table medal is not a precise term). The term is widely used in the field of orders, decorations and military medals. Collectors of these medals called non wearable medals by this term.
CLASS 12.6

Last week we revealed the meaning of the word CLASS and a number at the end of every term as the outline of all terms in An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology. There are 14 such classes. This week we list the sub-classes for the first half of these classes. Next week we will list those of the second half.

01 -- Physical Forms

02 -- Design

      02.1 Design, Drawing, Sketches
      02.2 Allegory & Symbolism
      02.3 Background, Field, Texture
      02.4 Base Lines, Center Point & Exergue
      02.5 Borders, Dentiles & Rims
      02.6 Devices, Emblems & Foreground
      02.7 Edges
      02.8 Elements, Ornaments & Wreaths
      02.9 Human Figures & Portraits
      02.10 Lettering, Dates & Reserves
      02.11 Openwork
      02.12 Perspective
      02.13 Shapes & Silhouettes
      02.14 Obverse/Reverse Relationship
      02.15 Design Errora

03 -- Sculpture, Modeling, Signatures, Editing

      03.2 Sculpture, Relief, Style
      03.4 Modeling & Plaster Casting
      03.6 Signatures & Mintmarks
      03.8 Editing
      03.9 Modeling & Editing Errors

04 -- Engraving, Diemaking, Proving

      04.1 Engraving, Hand Engraving
      04.2 Computer Engraving
      04.3 Pantographic Reduction, Machine Engraving
      04.4 Dies
      04.5 Punches, Puncheons
      04.6 Diesinking, Hubbing
      04.7 Proving
      04.8 Proof Dies, Proof Finish
      04.9 Die Anomalies, Errors

05 -- Composition, Media

      05.1 Composition
      05.2 Fineness, Tolerance & Seigniorage
      05.4 Metal Elements & Alloys
      05.5 Impressed, Relic & Multiple Metals
      05.6 Clad, Bonded & Other Metals
      05.7 Bimetal, Ring Technology
      05.8 Nonmetallic Media
      05.9 Metal Anomalies

06 -- Blanking, Upsetting, Striking, Coining

      06.1 Milling & Rolling
      06.2 Blanking
      06.3 Upsetting & Whitening
      06.4 Setup & First Strikes
      06.5 Striking, Presses, Presswork
      06.6 Collars
      06.7 Coining
      06.8 Scales & Weighing
      06.9 Blanking & Striking Errors

07 -- Casting, Electroforming, Repoussé , Etching

      07.2 Casting
      07.4 Electroforming
      07.6 Repoussé
      07.8 Etching, Niello & Other Methods
      07.9 Casting Anomalies

Wayne Homren, Editor

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