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France Loge Ecossaise De Jérusalem 5817 (1817)
Catalogue information
LastDodo number
5760811
Area
Tokens / Medals
Title
France Loge Ecossaise De Jérusalem 5817 (1817)
Publisher
Value
Country
Year
1817
Collection / set
Material
Weight
Variety / overstrike
Obverse
L. Ecossaise De Jérusalem, O De Paris. 5817 (1817)
Reverse
Pour les Macons Il Est Toujours Fleuri BJ
Privy mark
Mint mark
Designer
Engraver
Dimensions / Diameter
29
Number
Labouret 270
Details
5817 (Hebrew calendar) = 2056
Mass: 10 grams
Pour les Macons Il Est Toujours Fleuri (French) =
For the Masons there is still France (possibly)
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.