Definition

• Vita.  Very brief biographical data. Reverse designs of some portrait medals, particularly 19th century series medals, contain such vita, often little more than date of birth and death.

  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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