Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, and Historical Medals

France, Exposition internationale de la houille blanche et du tourisme, grenoble, 1925, a gilt-bronze award medal by C.P. Pillet, naked female reclining on rock-face, hydro-electric lines behind and a party of climbers in background, reverse aerial view of Grenoble, wreath around, un-named, 69mm (cf. BDW 18, 502). About very fine, obverse better, scarce (£30-40)

An unusually early medal commemorating the hydro-electric industry