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Votive crown

In the example above, the letters on the pendilia spell "RECCESVINTUVS REX OFFERET", or "King Recceswinth offered this".

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The Crown of the Andes is a votive crown from Colombia in gold with 450 emeralds, apparently made between the late 16th and 18th centuries, perhaps originally as an offering in thanks for the city of Popayán being spared from a plague.

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A few years later, in 1487, the crown that had been used by the pretender Lambert Simnel was given to a statue of the Virgin in Dublin.

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