The next commemorative Cincinnati medal, in point of age, is that struck in 1903 by the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire in commemoration of the hundred and twentieth anniversary of its organization (Hume #6).

Bronze Medal commemorating the 120th Anniversary
of the founding of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, 1903.
(Obverse). Hume #6a.

Bronze Medal commemorating the 120th Anniversary
of the founding of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, 1903.
(Reverse). Hume #6a.

41mm. Bronze.

The following extract from the report for 1903 of the Secretary of the New Hampshire Committee gives an account of this medal:

In commemoration of these meetings of 1783 and in gratitude for the prosperity which has been won by the New Hampshire Society, a medal has been struck and will be today bestowed upon the members present, our honored guests, and the Officers of the General Society, and one will be forwarded to each State Society as a slight token of the regard and esteem in which they are held by the members of this honorable Society.

On the obverse of the medal will be noted the design of the heart and hands taken from the ancient diploma. May it ever be that the brethren of the Cincinnati and of this Society in particular be bound heart and hand together in warm feelings of brotherly affection coupled with an earnest desire to promote and cherish the high standards of morality, justice and national honor established by the founders.

In the minutes of the meeting of the Society in Exeter on July 4, 1903, we find an account of the distribution of these medals:

The Society then adjourned to the Ladd-Gilman House, purchased by the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati and now known as Cincinnati Memorial Hall, the medals commemorative of the 120th Anniversary of the institution of the Society being distributed with appropriate ceremony.

The medal was struck in bronze and in silver, the silver copies being suspended from a ring. They measure 1-5/8 inch in diameter, being 3/32-inch in thickness. It was designed by Capt. William Lithgow Willey, of the New Hampshire Cincinnati, and struck by J. F. Newman & Company, of New York. The obverse bears the Eagle of the Cincinnati, and above, in a semicircle, thirteen stars; below, on a scroll, is the second motto of the Order, Esto Perpetua (Be thou perpetuated). The legend about the margin Societas Cincinnatorum Neo Hantoniensis, and below, in smaller letters: Instituta A. D. 1783. The reverse bears a wreath of oak leaves, within which is the inscription: One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary 1783 1903.

Below this there are two hands supporting a heart, which emblems, as the above report says, are from the diploma of the Society, designed by Major L'Enfant. About 150 copies, chiefly in bronze, were issued.

Silver Medal commemorating the 120th Anniversary
of the founding of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, 1903.
(Obverse). Hume #6b.

Silver Medal commemorating the 120th Anniversary
of the founding of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati, 1903.
(Reverse). Hume #6b.

41mm. Bronze.