Lübeck, Free City. A Bene Merenti Table Medal United Republic of arriving in Halifax on the

arriving in Halifax on the 25th

Below his signature is the one by the order’s chancellor in black ink

and transferred to No

reformed the Statutes of the association and established new norms for secular knights whom he divided into five classes or ranks: Great Cross

Lübeck, Free City. A Bene Merenti Table Medal United Republic of arriving in Halifax on the(Gedenkmnze Bene Merenti). Constructed of bronze, the obverse with a robed female figure in front of a Hanseatic trading ship, above an inscription of BENE MERENTI, the reverse with a richly detailed coat of arms of the Free City of Lbeck, circumcribed by an inscription of SENATUS REIPUBLICAE LUBECENSIS (SENATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF LBECK), the reverse with a designer mark of LOOS DIR. KNIG FEC. for Gottfried Bernhard Loos, measuring 50 mm in diameter,