Posted 8 months ago
PoorJohnnys
(3 items)
Trying to see if anyone knows anything about this coin/pendant? It had to have been a festival or something based on “May 18.19.20. 1896” but I can’t seem to find anything helpful online.
1896 Pittsburg Pope Leo XIII coin | ||
| Medals Pins and Badges17 of 1661 |  |  |
Google translates back as "German Catholics meeting in the state of Pennsylvania"
Hi, PoorJohnnys. :-)
dav2no1 is pretty spot on with his translation.
What I got was:
GERMAN
CATHOLICS
ASSEMBLY
OF THE STATE
PENNSYLVANIA
MAY 18.19.20 1896
PITTSBURG
PA
The 18th, 19th, and 20th of May, 1896 would have been Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=1896&country=1
A quick Google Lens didn't turn up any twins, but quite a few cousins of the reverse. That is, I saw commemorative rounds with a similar border, so *somebody* was probably making a nice living manufacturing stuff like that.
I didn't get any hits on a search for May 1896 conference of German Catholics in Pittsburg(h), either. :-(
Some background on German Catholics in Pittsburgh:
*snip*
By the time I was in the picture, my grandmother lived in the “nicer” part of McKees Rocks, across the street from St. Mary’s Help of Christians Church, a gray stone cathedral-sized building so skyscraping it makes a convenient landmark for airplane descent into PIT.
St. Mary’s was built for German Catholics who, in the mid-19th century, felt their needs were not entirely met by the area’s Irish clergy. At the start of the 20th century, their current building on Church Avenue was erected, the massive Gothic I recall from my childhood.
*snip*
https://www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-faith-race-place-what-i-learned-from-my-slovak-catholic-grandmother/
Whoops, I should have written that perhaps the church could help you out on this.