Champions Commemoration Medal

[ClaretTony]

I have no idea where this has come from but just found it while doing some tidying.

There's an inscription on the back which reads: "To commemorate Football League Champions 1959/60. Limited Edition Run of 100 Medals."

This one is number 8.

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[ClaretTony]

Has anyone seen or got one of these?

[Vincent'sCap]

Did someone break in your house and leave it there

[ClaretTony]

Did someone break in your house and leave it there

Maybe - there's nothing worth taking

[Vincent'sCap]

Maybe - there's nothing worth taking

[Wokingclaret]

Just change

Championship Champions 2022-2023 and Burnley Football club on the badge and its uptodate

Museum piece that

[longsidepies]

Can find nowt on the net about it so I've no idea where it came from either but I love it!

[Commy]

I have one of those. They sold them a few years ago. Well, more than a few years ago . I can't remember how much I paid for it though.

[ClaretTony]

I have one of those. They sold them a few years ago. Well, more than a few years ago . I can't remember how much I paid for it though.

I’ve been told that you could select which number you wanted when you ordered it. I went for 8 because it was Jimmy Mac’s number. I just can’t ever remember anything about it.

[aclaretinstevenage]

Frank will be able to translate the motto when he gets the job (not for me)!

"The price and the reason for the work" comes up on Translate sites!

[FigSlice]

"Pretiumque et causa laboris" is the motto of the old Burnley County Borough Council, abolished in 1974 along with the other remaining county boroughs. The motto translates as "both the prize and the motive of labour".

[steve1264b]

Maybe - there's nothing worth taking

What about the Ninja air fryer?

[ClaretTony]

What about the Ninja air fryer?

I’ve had my Ninja Foodi over four years now. It’s had a lot of use.

[Clarets4me]

Frank will be able to translate the motto when he gets the job (not for me)!
"The price and the reason for the work" comes up on Translate sites!

More commonly, " The prize is the cause of our labour "

It's a quote from Book IV of the Roman Poet Ovid's, " Metamorphoses" ( written in 8AD ), when he retells the classic Greek mythological tale of Perseus and Andromeda. Perseus was the son of the God Zeus, and rescues the beautiful Princess Andromeda from the clutches of a Sea monster.

Those of us sitting in the James Hargreaves Upper often discuss Ovid's work. Indeed, there are matches during which we speak of little else ...