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VOCABULARY TERM: RECIPIENTDick Johnson submitted this entry from his Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Terminology. Thanks! -Editor
Recipient. The person who receives or is bestowed a medal for award or recognition. The bestowal is customarily at a ceremony and the medal may be accompanied with a
certificate and sometimes a monetary award. Often the medal is inscribed with the recipient's name, date, and occasionally a brief citation and presented in a case. When the presentation is
posthumous, the medal goes to the next of kin. In sports the recipient is called a medalist (one “l”); in fields of academic, scientific and medical achievement the recipient it called a
laureate. In rare instances the recipient is embarrassed he was bestowed the honor and removes his name from the medal; this is termed an obliterated name (and is considered an act of
vandalism to the medal). Wayne Homren, Editor The Numismatic Bibliomania Society is a non-profit organization promoting numismatic literature. See our web site at coinbooks.org. To submit items for publication in The E-Sylum, write to the Editor at this address: whomren@gmail.com To subscribe go to: https://my.binhost.com/lists/listinfo/esylum All Rights Reserved. NBS Home Page Contact the NBS webmaster 
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