Tribute
Tribute. Honoring a person while still alive; a medallic tribute would be to issue a medal in honor of a person with a portrait and/or honorary inscription. (If the person is dead, it is a memorial rather than a tribute.)
excerpted with permission from
An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology
For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators
COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON
Roger W. Burdette, Editor