Talk:Monghyr Mutiny Medal
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 15:00, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
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Obverse of the medal
- ... that a medal depicting Minerva, sometimes identified as the East India Company's Monghyr Mutiny Medal, may in fact be a Freemasons' award? "This medal is believed to have been issued on the recommendation of Robert, Lord Clive, to the Indian officers of two Indian battalions who succeeded in quelling a mutiny among the European troops at Monghyr in Bengal, in June 1766." from: "Silver medal commemorating the suppression of the 'Monghyr Mutiny', 1766". Online Collection. National Army Museum, London. Retrieved 4 August 2020. and "the so - called Monghyr Mutiny Medal now allocated to the Minerva Lodge , Leipzig" from: British Numismatic Society (1927). British Numismatic Journal. p. 435.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 17:30, 12 August 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:13, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
