1:  ADAM GAVE NAMES TO EVERY BEAST OF THE FIELD AND FOWL OF THE AIR Paolo Veronese

2:  EVE PRESENTING THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT TO ADAM Domenichino
 
3:  THE EXPULSION OF ADAM AND EVE FROM PARADISE Guido
 
4:  CAIN SLAYING HIS BROTHER ABEL Domenichino
 
5:  ENOCH CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN Paolo Veronese
 
6:  NOAHS ARK FLOATING UPON THE WATERS Bandinelli
 
7:  NOAH BUILDETH AN ALTAR UNTO THE LORD AND OFFERETH SACRIFICE Poussin
 
8:  THE TOWER OF BABLE IN THE LAND OF SHINAH Bandinelli
 
9:  LOT PARTING FROM ABRAHAM TO DWELL IN THE PLAIN OF JORDAN Titian
 
10:  LOT AND HIS TWO DAUGHTERS ON THEIR JOURNEY FROM SODOM TO ZOAR Rubens
 
11:  ABRAHAM OFFERING HIS SON ISAAC FOR A SACRIFICE Carracci
 
12:  REBEKAH DRAWING WATER FOR ABRAHAMS CAMELS Poussin
 
13:  ABRAHAM BURIED IN THE CAVE OF MACPHELAH BY HIS SONS Rembrandt
 
14:  ISAAC BLESSING JACOB INSTEAD OF ESAU Titian
 
15:  RECONCILIATION BETWEEN JACOB AND HIS BROTHER ESAU Titian
 
16:  JOSEPHS BRETHEREN SELLING HIM TO THE ISHMAELITE MERCHANTS Guido
 
17:  THE INTERPRETATION OF KING PHARAOHS TWO DREAMS BY JOSEPH Guido
 
18:  JOSEPH MAKETH HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BRETHEREN Murillo
 
19:  JACOB ON HIS DEATH BED CALLING TOGETHER HIS SONS & BLESSING THEM Rembrandt
 
20:  MOSES DISCOVERED & PRESERVED BY THE DAUGHTER OF KING PHARAOH Poussin
 
21:  THE ROD OF MOSES MIRACULOUSLY CHANGED INTO A SERPENT Salvator Rosa
 
22:  THE FIRST BORN SLAIN THROUGHOUT THE LAND OF EGYPT Michelangelo
 
23:  PHARAOH AND HIS HOST DROWNED IN THE RED SEA Michelangelo
 
24:  AND MOSES SMOTE THE ROCK AND IT GUSH’D OUT WATER Murillo
 
25:  MOSES DESCENDING FROM THE MOUNT & FINDING THE ISRAELITES WORSHIPING THE MOLTEN CALF Raphael 
 
26:  THE ARK OF THE COVENANT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE THE BRAZEN LAVER Bandinelli
 
27:  MOSES’S BRAZEN SERPENT Rembrandt
 
28:  BALAAM SMITING HIS ASS WHO SPEAKETH BEFORE THE ANGEL Carracci
 
29:  THE SACRIFICE OF THE RED HEIFER BY ELEAZAR Van Dyck
 
30:  JOSHUA DIVIDING THE WATERS OF THE RIVER JORDAN Rembrandt
 
31:  JOSHUA COMMANDING THE SUN TO STAND STILL Rembrandt
 
32:  CHART OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL’S TRAVELS FROM EGYPT Thomason
 
33:  JAEL DRIVING THE NAIL THROUGH THE HEAD OF SISERA Carracci
 
34:  FULFILMENT OF JEPHTHAHS RASH VOW Carracci
 
35:  SAMSON KILLING THE LION ON HIS JOURNEY TO TIMNATH Le Brun
 
36:  SAMSON CARRYING AWAY THE GATES OF GAZA Le Brun
 
37:  DAVID CUTTING OFF THE HEAD OF GOLIATH THE PHILISTINE Michelangelo
 
38:  SAUL AND THE WITCH OF ENDOR Salvator Rosa
 
39:  ABSALOM SLAIN BY JOAB IN THE WOOD OF EPHRAIM Carracci
 
40:  SOLOMON’S TEMPLE Bandinelli
 
41:  SOLOMON’S JUDGMENT Carlo Dolci
 
42:  JEROBOHAM ORDERING THE MAN OF GOD TO BE SEIZ’D Correggio
 
43:  ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS AT THE BROOK CHERITH Paolo Veronese
 
44:  ELIJAH CARRIED UP INTO HEAVEN IN THE PRESENCE OF ELISHA Raphael
 
45:  THE SHUNAMITE’S SON RESTORED TO LIFE ON THE PRAYER OF ELISHA Murillo
 
46:  JONAH DELIVER’D FROM THE WHALE Leonardo daVinci
 
47:  SENNACHERIBS OVERTHROW BY THE ANGEL 185,000 SMOTE IN THE CAMP Michelangelo
 
48:  SHADRACH MESHACK AND ABEDNEGO IN THE FIREY FURNACE Carlo Maratta
 
49:  JOB IN DISTRESS REBUKING HIS WIFE Leonardo daVinci
 
50:  THE DIVINE PSALMIST Van Dyck
 
51:  DANIEL IN THE DEN OF LIONS Raphael
 
52:  JULIUS CAESAR MURDERED IN THE SENATE HOUSE AT ROME Correggio
 
53:  THE ADORATION OF THE WISE MEN Rubens
 
54:  JOSEPH’S FLIGHT INTO EGYPT Rubens
 
55:  JOHN BAPTIZING CHRIST IN JORDAN Poussin
 
56:  CHRIST RAISING LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD Murillo
 
57:  CHRIST INSTITUTING HIS LAST SUPPER Leonardo daVinci
 
58:  CHRIST’S AGONY IN THE GARDEN Carlo Dolci
 
59:  THE CRUCIFIXION Rubens
 
60:  THE ASCENSION Correggio
 

The Thomason Medallic Bible Medal Series

By John Sallay

The Thomason Medallic Bible is a set of sixty medals struck in 1830 that captures the essence of the entire Holy Bible in medallic art. The obverse designs were inspired by the works of well-known Renaissance artists and executed by several different engravers. The reverse of each medal contains a dense text quotation or explanation describing the topic of each medal. The set was produced in Birmingham, England by Sir Edward Thomason, who felt divinely inspired to “promote the glory of God by impressing the Word of God upon gold, silver and other indestructible metals”.

In 1970, the Franklin Mint issued a small-format recreation from newly engraved dies, with much simplified text. While the original Thomason medals were struck in gilt copper and white metal with a diameter of 73mm, the Franklin Mint Version medals were struck in bronze with a diameter of 44mm. They were sold in a custom binder, with a description from Sir Edward Thomason’s Memoirs During Half a Century quoted on the inside front cover:

"It appeared to me, in 1827, that I might, through God’s assistance, become a humble instrument to effect a unique and novel medallic work to further and promote the glory of God, by impressing the Word of God upon gold, silver and other indestructible metals, with emblematical and symbolical designs, and with a short condensed explanation on the reverses of the medals, and thereby be the first author of a Medallic Bible.

In this feeling my heart rejoiced, my soul was willing, but my flesh was weak, and I prayed unto the Lord to give me grace and strength of mind to accomplish so arduous an undertaking.