Help ID Religious Medallion.... Late 1700s-Early 1800s??

[Rowdy Yates]

I know these are hard to ID and date, but I've got a feeling this is an old one I found today. After a couple of weeks, I finally got back to my site which gave up a couple of Spanish Reales (1822 and 181?) and three Phoenix Buttons (circa. 1820-1830s) and found this religious medallion.

It's shown next to a seated $0.50 for scale and is oval in shape. One side has a picture of Mary? holding baby Jesus? and says "REGINA ANGELORUM". The other side shows an Angel? and a smaller man and says "ANGELOS CUSTOS". I think the inscriptions are in Latin.

It appears to be made of a yellowish metal, perhaps bronze or brass. Looks more like bronze to me.

I know nothing about religious stuff, so any help would be appreciated. Anybody have a clue as to the ID or age of this piece?

Thanks!!!

Rick

 

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[PBK]

Regina Angelorum means "Queen of the Angels," and refers to the Virgin Mary:

http://www.opusangelorum.org/Formation/Maryregina.html

Angelos Custos means "Guardian Angel."

 

[Hardy]

It appears to be older than the recent religious medals that I have seen posted here before, Very Nice Find!!

 

[Snee]

Very nice!

 

[Rowdy Yates]

Thanks for the info so far..........

I'm still in the slow process of cleaning this thing.....

It's looking a lot more like bronze than anything else....

 

[lonewolfe]

nice find!

thanks for sharing,

hh

lonewolfe

 

[leslie(nova scotia)]

yo Rowdy Yates

From the land of the Bluenose.....first time I have seen that. Have seen the coins turned into love tokens. Great find for sure and best of the season!

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Nice find! HH, Mike

 

[dugupfinds]

From my experience, its Victorian.

 

[Green1]

wow,, this is a great find !!!!~ congrads to you.....

 

[Gypsy Heart]

What a beautiful find and how fitting that you find it at this time of year.