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France, Association des Médecins de la Seine, Décretée d’Utilité Publique, 1851, a bronze medal by J.B.E. Farochon, bust of Mathéo Orfila left, rev. legend, 51mm (Brettauer 827; BDM II, 74). Extremely fine, nicely patinated; in original black fitted case (£35-45)

Mathéo José Bonaventure Orfila (1787-1853), born in Minorca, was the founding president of the Association in 1833