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A medal or medallion is, strictly speaking, a small, flat, and round (at times, ovoid) piece of metal that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way marked with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering.

A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, academic, or various other achievements.

Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration.

Medals may also be created for sale to commemorate particular individuals or events, or as works of artistic expression in their own right.

In the past, medals commissioned for an individual, typically with their portrait, were often used as a form of diplomatic or personal gift, with no sense of being an award for the conduct of the recipient.

Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.

The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called engravings.

Wood engraving is a form of relief printing and is not covered in this article.

Introduction.

An award is something given to a person, a group of people, or an organization to recognize their excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence.

Awards are often signified by trophies, titles, , commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons.

An award may carry a monetary prize given to the recipient; for example, the Nobel Prize for contributions to society or the Pulitzer Prize for literary achievements.

An award may also simply be a public of excellence, without any tangible or prize of excellence.

A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, and serves as recognition or evidence of merit.

Trophies are often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics.

In many sports medals (or, in North America, rings) are often given out either as the trophy or along with more traditional trophies.

A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, typically attached to a wall, stone, or other vertical surface, and bearing text or an image in relief, or both, in memory of one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing.

A monumental plaque or tablet commemorating a deceased person or persons, can be a simple form of church monument.

Most modern plaques affixed in this way are commemorative of something, but this is not always the case, and there are purely religious plaques, or those signifying ownership or affiliation of some sort.

A plaquette is a small plaque, but in English, unlike many European languages, the term is not typically used for outdoor plaques fixed to walls.