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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 36, August 26, 2012, Article 9

QUERY: MEDAL OF NOAH BY JULIO KILENYI SOUGHT

Regarding our discussion of coins picturing Noah's Ark, Harry Waterson writes:

Plaster model of Noah medal by Julio Kilenyi This is a picture of a plaster of Noah by Julio Kilenyi. Noah is still at sea in this composition as he looks for the sign that land is near. It has stopped raining and a rainbow has appeared. If you consider that the plaster is the camera lens zoomed all the way in, then in your mind’s eye zoom out and you will find that Noah is standing on the deck of the Ark. So the Ark is there it is just not in the frame.

The only struck example I have seen of this plaster is a 1 and 1/4 inch sterling uniface medal with a highly polished edge and the surface of the truncation and the tops of the NOAH lettering also highly polished.

There is no maker’s mark but the polishing leads me to believe the maker was more a jewelry company than a medal maker. Possibly either Robbins or Balfour. Should the readership have any idea who struck the medal, it would be nice to know.

The photo is from the archives of the National Sculpture Society and is undated but is marked on the back "Val’s Photo Service".

Leave it to Harry to provide a cinematic description of a medal - his career was spent in show business. Can anyone help? -Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 19, 2012: Another Noah's Ark Coin (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n35a13.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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