Auction Catalogue

21 March 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, Celtic, British and World Coins. Tokens, Tickets and Passes. Historical and Art Medals. Numismatic Books. British and World Paper Money.

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

Lot

№ 921

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21 March 2001

Hammer Price:
£25

France, La Grappe, 1907, a silver medal by O. Yencesse, bust of girl right, smiling, bunches of grapes in her hair, reverse bunch of grapes on a vine, la grappe above, société de la côte d’or below, named (J.B. Ganaye), 36mm (PBE –; cf. Coll. R. Marx 156; cf. ANS Exh. Cat. 1910, p.368, 1; BDM VI, 695, 697). About very fine, rare (£30-50)

The obverse derives from Yencesse’s La Bacchante of 1906