Definition

• Bijugate.  Two overlapping portraits facing the same direction; jugate; a British term the equivalent of accolated or conjoined; if the heads face each other, vis-à-vis. By extension it has also come to mean two or more portrait heads on both sides of a numismatic item.

  excerpted with permission from

  An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

  For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

  COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

  Roger W. Burdette, Editor

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