Medal - Augusto B. Leguia ND

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Lettering on six lines

Lettering:
PRESIDENTE CONSTITUCIONAL DE LA REPÚBLICA DEL PERÚ
24 DE SEPTIEMBRE
1908-1912

Translation:
CONSTITUTIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF PERU
24TH SEPTEMBER
1908-1912

Designer: Jose Francisco Rodriguez Whalen

Comment

- Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo, (born February 19, 1863, Lambayeque, Peru—died February 7, 1932, Lima) was a businessman and politician who, during the first of his two terms as president of Peru (1908–12; 1919–30), settled the country’s age-old boundary disputes with Bolivia and Brazil.

- Jose Francisco Rodriguez Whalen, a disciple of the Englishman Robert Britten, was active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is among the most prominent carvers and engravers of the National Mint of Lima. He used to sign his work with the initials JFR;

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Fondly called "engraver", he was an incomparable master with the burin. Among his disciples, Edmundo Callirgos stands out.
(from: El grabado en el Perú republicano: diccionario histórico by Nanda Leonardini.)