Phrenology Medals

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A number of medals were struck to honor Franz Joseph Gall, commemorating his lectures in Berlin in 1805 as well as his death. This medal depicts the symbolical head; the obverse and reverse delineate the thirty-five phrenological faculties as conceived by J. G. Spurzheim.

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This medal depicts Franz Joseph Gall.