Silver incuse medallion META / NEMAK, 2003
OBV: Ear of corn in high relief, META in left side.
R: Incuse block of car engine, NE-MAK on both sides.

“Protest” medal symbolizing the clash between agricultural and industrial civilization. Comment by Petr Sousek on this coinage:

“At the end of 2002 I met up with Pavel Franc of the Environmental Legal Service and heard, for the first time, about a conflict between private farmers from the Rajtr family with the multinational industrial company Nemak. At the same time I learnt about an exhibition of photographs by Ibra Ibrahimovič, who took up the subject.

The information immediately inspired me to create special medals in the form of the Old-Greek incuse Stater of the town of Metapont. I chose a combination of the relief of an ear of grain representing the ancient and contemporary agricultural civilization and a stylized industrial artifact – the motor block – produced by the Nemak company.

The medal is struck employing the ancient technique from bronze, manually engraved dies. As the archaic incuse Staters were made of silver, I also chose silver of 990/1000 purity and a double weight of 17 grams and also tin alloy.”