Auction Catalogue

31 May 2000

Starting at 1:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins, Historical and Art Medals

The Regus Conference Centre  12 St James Square  London  SW1Y 4RB

Lot

№ 835

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31 May 2000

Hammer Price:
£80

WORLD ART MEDALS France, The Birth of Moses, c.1950, a uniface cast bronze medal, unsigned [by P. Turin], Pharaoh’s daughter discovers Moses in a crib on a plinth, symbolic pyramids behind, stars above, 111mm. Extremely fine and very rare (£50-70)

Exodus II, 5, refers. The cataloguer is unaware of precisely when this and the following medal were executed, although the style suggests a post-War issue