Catalogue information

LastDodo number
5760749
Area
Tokens / Medals
Title
France Grande Loge de Hérodom 5809 (1809)
Publisher
Value
Country
Year
1809
Collection / set
Material
Weight
Variety / overstrike
Obverse
Pro Opere Autbelio . In The Lord We Put Our Trust . Anno 5809
Reverse
De H-D-M . En France . Nemo Me Impune Lacesset
Privy mark
Mint mark
Designer
Engraver
Dimensions / Diameter
29
Number
Labouret 45
Details
5809 (Hebrew calendar) = 2045 Mass: 18.3 grams Pro Opere Autbelio (Latin) = For work or beauty (possibly) Nemo Me Impune (Latin) = No one provokes me with impunity Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that traces its origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of masons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry, its gradal system, retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master Mason. The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the lodge. The lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry.