The Nobel Peace Prize Medal

According to the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, given by the King in Council on June 29, 1900, “the prize-awarding bodies shall present to each prize-winner an assignment for the amount of the prize, a diploma and a gold medal bearing the image of the testator and an appropriate inscription.”

The Nobel medals have had the same design since 1902. On December 10, the Peace Prize, i.e. diploma and medal, is presented in Oslo by the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in the presence of the King of Norway. The face on the medal of the Norwegian Nobel Committee shows Alfred Nobel in a pose slightly different from that of the other medals. The inscription is the same. The other side of the Peace Medal represents a group of three men forming a fraternal bond. The inscription reads: “Pro pace et fraternitate gentium” translated “For the peace and brotherhood of men.”