speaking type

noun

, Numismatics.

1. a device on a medal or coin that has a punning reference to a person or thing.

Example Sentences

Emre says that using this initial shorthand is called “speaking type.”

From The New Yorker

Having celebrated the Pasch of the Law, which had been instituted so many ages before, as the speaking type of what He was to accomplish, He with a word made His disciples priests to offer that Body which He then first gave to them, which on the morrow He was to offer on the cross, and in doing this utter the “Consummatum est.”

From Project Gutenberg