Definição

• Ornamentation.  The embellishing of a medallic or numismatic design by the addition of small design elements to supplement the major device and lettering. Ornamentation ranges from small single typographic ornaments – center dots, stars, rosettes – to minor pictorial elements, such as foliage, seals, skylines, clouds, banderoles and others. Also included are the continuous ornamentation on borders, chains, scrolls, spirals, waves, volutes, zigzags and guillouche. Ornamentation is a way designers can add interest, balance or emphasis to their medallic designs. A Pegasus Medal by Adolph Weinman is an example of a medal with high ornamentation.
      

  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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